Re: Evidence for monitoring email?

From: Todd H. (comphelp_at_toddh.net)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: 02 Feb 2004 09:59:59 -0600

manukau26@yahoo.com (manukau26) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I sent an email from my personal company email address, which was not
> delivered by our mail server, and the mail with the full header was
> returned to me. I then noticed a strange "Received:" entry in the
> header, with the machine name of a colleague of mine (who has access
> to all IT resources in the company).
>
> Here are the relevant entries (with real data replaced with dummies)
> from the mail header:
>
> ---
> Return-path: <...>
> Received: from from <anti-virus-scan> by <mailserver.company.country>
> with mail-ok (Exim <version no.> (Debian))
> id <message-ID> for <<receiver@email.address>>; <timestamp>
> Received: from <machinename-of-colleague.company.country> ([<IP
> address>] helo=<name-of-my-own-machine>)
> by <mailserver.company.country> with esmtp (Exim <version no.>
> (Debian))
> id <message-ID> for <<receiver@email.address>>; <timestamp>
> From: <my own name and email address at company>
> <...>
> ---
>
> Does this mean my email is being monitored by that colleague? Or could
> there be other, "legitimate" reasons for such mail relaying?

Quite possibly legitimate--his machine may the be the mail gateway for
your company...hard to tell with the details you've given. You could
send a dummy message out to a non-existent address and compare that
bounce message to the one that concerns you.

More to your concern, trust that your mail _could_easily_ be monitored
by your collegaue since he has access to all IT resources in the
company. This bounce, however, neither confirms or denies that he's
exercising that technical capability.

Best Regards, 

-- 
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

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