According to a report by ZD Net UK, the UK Information
Commissioner is warning that a new tool called Demailer that lets
users of IBM/Lotus Domino Notes to retrieve unread e-mail from a
recipient’s inbox could be in breach of the law against
unauthorised interception laid down in the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and against principles of data
protection law.
Similar tools allows senders to recall unread e-mail from an
inbox on the same server. According to ZD Net, the Information
Commissioner considers this practice “not unreasonable.” However,
for Lotus Domino Notes, the new IBM/Lotus Demailer goes one step
further, enabling retrieval from remote servers, provided the
recipient is also a user of Domino.
