Leen, On Friday 02 June 2006 03:36, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Friday 02 June 2006 12:02, John wrote:
Can someone please clarify the following:
If I use my ISP to send email, they log it and keep the record for years.
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If I elect to use my server with its DNS capability to send the mail 'direct', even though I still need the ISP to give me an internet connection, they have nothing to log.
Is my understanding correct?
Do they log (email) traffic? I suppose your internet traffic has to pass through their servers, right? Then theoretically they can log whatever they want, the legality of it being another question. ;)
It has to pass through their routers, yes, and that does give them the _possibility_ to log application-level protocol information, such as POP, IMAP or RFC2822 (<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html>) headers. While I'd expect extensive logging of mail relayed via one's ISP's mail servers, I'd be surprised (at the moment) if they were doing it for TCP streams that were not terminating in one of their servers, which I believe was John's question.
Cheers,
Leen
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