I used to work for an ISP before recently moving over to a UNIX position at a bank. This was not a huge ISP by any means, but rather a speciality ISP owned by one of the largest ISP's in the US. I can testify that we did NOT log customer's email as many have stated. It sits in the spool until it is successfully sent and then it's 'gone'. Come to think of it, there's only one place where they COULD retrieve your sent mail after it's out - the full backups made of the servers' data that are kept for a couple months at a time. But where I worked, it was a pain to have them retrieve tapes that were removed from the robot for even important data, I highly doubt they would be pulling them to scour through spools of people's worthless emails. As far as you running your own server (if your port 25 isn't blocked), or using a different server other than your ISP's, there was no log kept of anything like this, nor any traffic whatsoever. On the other hand, anything is possible. Typically email and most web traffic is not encrypted and COULD be sniffed and logged. But why waste the resources? -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com