Archive for the 'Email compliance' Category

Are companies unknowingly exposing themselves to the potentially harmful effects of cc mass mailings?

December 7th, 2009

This could happen to you: Your new sales rep is eager to get results and fast. He decides to contact his 200 customers with your latest promotional offer. In order to get the message across in the minimum amount of time, he creates one email, pastes all the email addresses in the Cc: field and […]

How to Configure an Email Disclaimer in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

October 1st, 2009

In this article we will show you how you can configure an email disclaimer in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 by creating a Transport Rule, and discuss the various disclaimer options that are available to you.

E-discovery evidence can win or lose a case

September 14th, 2008

The Los Angeles Business Journal recently posted an interesting article about how today’s lawyers not only need to be experts in their field of law, but increasingly also need to be eDiscovery experts. More and more e-mails, instant messages and other electronically stored documents are being used as evidence in disputes ranging from corporate law […]

10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

November 2nd, 2007

Last week we discussed the top 6 email risks that companies face. So what can we do to protect ourselves against these risks? Here are 10 things that you should be doing to protect your company:
#1: Write an email policy. If you do not already have one in place, the first thing you must do […]

The top six corporate email risks

October 27th, 2007

We all know that email is a great business tool. It’s fast, cheap, universal and easy to deploy. However, companies that make use of email are confronted with a number of risks. So what are the email risks that companies face? Red Earth Software has identified the following top 6 email risks:
#1 Legal liability; In […]

Email footers now required by EU

March 1st, 2007

A European Union Directive has recently come into effect requiring companies to add their company address, registration number and VAT number to all business emails or risk a fine. In the UK and Germany this law came into effect on January 1, 2007 but in other countries such as the Netherlands this law was already […]

10 points to include in your email policy

August 20th, 2006

Email policies are important since they spell out what the company considers as appropriate email usage and more importantly, what is considered as inappropriate usage. You can either create a separate email usage policy or you can include an email policy section in your Employee handbook. In both cases it is a good idea to […]