[ILUG] Completely loo-lah law requiring retention of e-mailheaders for 3 years

Wed Jan 23 17:29:48 GMT 2008

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:03:10 +0000, "Rory Browne" <rbmlist at gmail.com>
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>> Actually - that's almost  _exactly_ the point !

> Even then email is a best effort service. Current email protocols
> don't guarantee delivery. For all the ISPs log knows the email packets
> could have been dropped by the firewall / spam filter. Just because an
> email is sent doesn't mean it was delivered.
> --

AFAIK, under the 2003 E-Commerce act if an email has left the last mx box
under your control it is deemed recieved....

Ruairi