Legal liability for internal emails overlooked.

Red Earth Software, warns that many companies are not filtering their internal emails, hence making their organization vulnerable to harassment, racist and sexual discrimination lawsuits. Although many organizations filter their external mails for offensive words and add footers to disclaim responsibility for content, messages sent on the internal network are often left untouched. The recent settlement in the UK for obscene emails sent over the internal network only serves to highlight the fact that leaving internal emails unchecked can prove to be a costly business.

A possible reason why most companies only content check their external mails is because there are simply not many email filters that are capable of checking internal mails. This is because the technology for filtering internally sent emails is far more advanced than for externally sent emails. At the moment, Policy Patrol is the only one-stop solution that claims to filter internal as well as external mails (if installed on Exchange Server 2000 or 2003), whist offering a full feature set including spam black lists and disclaimer features, and the option to apply different roles depending on whether the mail is internal or external.

Policy Patrol is an email-filtering tool that offers advanced anti-spam, anti-virus, content & attachment checking, disclaimers, archiving and reporting. It works with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2000/5.5, LotusDomino and any other SMTP mail server. If installed on Exchange Server 2003 or 2000, it can filter internal as well as external emails.

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