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Hi,<br>
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IMHO this is just a "middle-managment" idiocy. Why don't they just
go for a coffee break? Or indeed just stop looking at their email if
they are not required to? Is it in writing as a policy at least so
people feel OK about going offline? Or is it a one-upmanship thing
where everyone is too afraid to stop looking in case they look bad
in comparison with the compulsive unpaid overtime crowd?<br>
<br>
Worthy of Dilbert anyway - ie transform an obvious people management
problem into an IT problem (because most managers are incapable of
managing).<br>
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I have the same thing with telephony, ie "what technology can make
people who don't pick up the phone, pick up the phone, but not make
people feel like we're a call centre". We've pitched ACD but
no-one's willing to stump up the <100K licence for the org. But
they don't understand that when you have someone that doesn't want
to use the phone, no amount of technology (short of electric
shocks/live grenades etc) will make them do it!<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/10/14 12:15, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ja@conviator.com">ja@conviator.com</a>
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<div>hi</div>
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<div>its not a spam issue so maybe a bit off topic but Im just
thinking if maybe this is something mailscanner could do anyway
or if anyone would maybe thing ahh you can do this... </div>
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<div>we are scanning incomming mail for a domain XXXX - not all
users, but some/most we want to control WHEN they get the
emails. During most of the working hours we want some of the
users to have "a break" (yes they could just close the mail
program :) ). Could we in anyway force this by accepting the
mails to the mailserver/mailscanner but delay the relay until
after ie. 18.00 hours. During off hours all mails are delivered
straight away. Our mailserver does not support anything like
this. Also since its not ALL of the users/domains we cannot just
shutdown the firewall AND we dont want the sender of the email
to get a "delayed" report. </div>
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<div>ideas? know of a proxy smtp or something other or something
smart in MailScanner ?</div>
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<div>best regards</div>
<div>Jan</div>
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