[Sheflug] Re: Adding global sigs/footers with Sendmail

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Dear All

Nigel Metherhingham sent this in this morning.  He's not subscribed to
the list so I've forwarded it for him.......

Listar wrote:

> RobS [at] viclabs.co.uk said:
> > Does anyone know how to add a global signature to all (outgoing)
> > emails passing through Sendmail ?
 
Get legal advice! (as well as technical).
 
> The message that has now gone out is not the one originally authored -
> the content has been added to.  Who is then responsible for the content
> - the author or the owner of the system.  If the message libels
> someone, who gets sued - who is worth suing?
> How about digital signatures - they have potentially been broken by
> this.
> 

 It is not the job of an MTA to mess with content - the MTA can
scribble
 on the envelope and add headers, but the content is someone elses
 problem.
 

> bpfowler [at] hotmail.com said:
> > I'm fairly sure the Nigel and Gary have covered at least similar
> > question in the past, but I don't see it in the archives.
>
 
 Not with sendmail, please!
 It *can* be done with exim, but I consider it a mark of someone
trying
 to fix a social problem with a bad technical patch and doomed to
 failure.  BTW in parts of the EU - NL in particular - and potentially
 if you are sending messages to those parts of the EU - it is a
 *criminal* offence for message content to be tampered with by the
 transport - and potentially that could translate to the UK (which is
 probably a good thing IMHO).
 
 MTA body modification - Just Say No!
 
         Nigel.
 
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Thanks 

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Richard

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