Re: [cobalt-users] Reading Emails

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e-mail falls  under the United States  Postal  Code of  physical or
electronic   messages also falls  under the  FCC regulations  concurring
wire  tap   if  you access a client  email  other than to provide that email
to the  intended recipient  you are not only subject to a lawsuit  but also
you are subject   to criminal  charges   that can get you  time in jail your
self .  unless you are  subpoena or  this is a company that is paying for
the individual account  and the  company request the  email  as  per there
company polices   on  email    you are treading in very dangerest  waters
this has  all ready been tested in several  federal court and the supreme
court   and lastly  the supreme court  has deemed  email  private as long as
the individual pays for the  acct  them selves and  it does not cross over a
companies   internet  access account  paid by  a company for the  use of the
company to access the internet.  you as a ISP  have no right to access  this
email  unless one of the above is meet .
of course  this assumes  you are in the united  states
in the  following countries the  law is  similar  so tread lightly there
also 
united kingdom  Germany   Holland  Australia, Ireland   France, Spain ,
Canada.

Gary


on 4/15/00 7:24 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Though others have written you this, Fathi, I thought I'd say it
> again...
> 
> If you give copies of your client's email to the police without a
> warrant or subpoena you will find yourself at the losing end of a
> lawsuit.  Whether your client is guilty of anything or not.
> 
> First, this email presumes you're in the U.S.  If you're not in the U.S.
> none of this may apply; see your attorney.
> 
> Get them to give you a warrant or subpoena before giving them any of the
> emails.
> 
> Then, after you've got it, show it to your attorney.
> 
> After your attorney approves it as valid, give the police exactly what
> they ask for in the subpoena or warrant, or let them know why you can't
> (such as you that you don't have it.
> 
> Don't forget, that your client's mail file (in /var/spool/mail [or
> /home/spool/mail in the RaQ3]) gets erased as soon as the client
> downloads it.
> 
> Uusally all you'll have to give the police is a few emails at most, and
> some logs.
> 
> Do NOT give the police any information in logs about any other clients,
> or you'll find yourself open to lawsuits.
> 
> This means you'll have to grep logfiles for information to give the
> police.
> 
> You may certainly charge them for it, and you can even ask them for the
> money in advance, though you probably won't get it.  Be sure to get
> billing information from them first preferably as part of the warrant or
> subpoena, before you start.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Fathi Said wrote:
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> We have a client who is possibly doing illegal activity. For checking this,
>> we have to read his emails and forward a copy to the police department --
>> but we want to do this without notifying him.
>> ...<balance deleted>...