According to Richard Corenthal, a partner in the New York law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., federal law clearly establishes employers' rights to monitor e-mail.

"Once that is in place and the policy is provided to the employees, they effectively have no recourse," Corenthal explained. "Nor is there any expectation of privacy in the workplace."

Omniquad Mailwall: Key benefits Policy based content security Mailwall has been designed to be visually managed with an Explorer-style graphical interface: sophisticated rules system allows for different policies and authentication mechanisms to be applied to ingoing/outgoing e-mail traffic, domains, groups or individual users. No setup changes required for your existing e-mail users. Employed as a fully integrated component of your existing Internet messaging protocols, Mailwall operates as a stand alone system or interacts with Lotus, Exchange or any other SMTP mail server. Organization wide implementation Now your whole organization can benefit from one e-mail security mechanism, whether the users are on one major site, several smaller sites, on the road or working from home. Anti-virus protection management Incorporates multiple virus detection engines from most of the world’s anti-virus leading vendors. Mailwall will utilize your existing compatible anti-virus product, thus saving you on the costs. Viruses can be automatically removed from message attachments or the whole message can be quarantined or rejected. Performs multiple passes on message attachments with more than one virus-scanner, delivering you the best possible virus protection. Attachment control Quarantines or rejects user-defined file types such as movie clips, pictures or executable programs - sends the relevant reply to the sender if required. Limits the size of messages and allows you to specify individual sizes for various file types. Messages over certain size can be rejected or automatically delayed for off-peak delivery to preserve your bandwidth. Full bandwidth reporting ensures that you always have the total overview. Content security Lexical analysis of both message subject and body copy within attachments allows you to detect messages with questionable, abusive or illicit content. A separate response action can be set for different situation scenarios Junk e-mail protection (SPAM) Deletes junk e-mail before it consumes your valuable bandwidth, server resources and users time. Confidentiality protection Prevents confidential information related to clients, competitors, passwords etc. from being sent by e-mail without authorization. All suspected messages can be temporarily quarantined for the authorized approval. Legal disclaimers The insertion of legal disclaimers protects your organization from possible litigation related to the use of e-mail by one of your users. Quarantine facility All suspicious and unapproved incoming/outgoing e-mail messages will be scanned and quarantined, for inspection by the Network Administrator. Automatic Archiving Archives all messages for future use as a valuable reference resource. Maintain your business's integrity Mailwall provides you with total e-mail security, allowing you to safeguard against the potentially damaging consequences of loss of reputation and competitive advantage. At a glance Works as stand-alone with Lotus, Exchange Server or any SMTP-compatible mail server. Can be positioned on a network without a firewall, or at either side of the firewall or in the DMZ. 32-bit executable modules running on Windows95/98/NT (running as a service on NT). Multi-threading module increases or decreases system load depending on the traffic to be processed. Full support for RAS. Want more information? Go back to the top and click the blue button of your choice.