RecallIT
RecallIT® for MIMEsweeper preserves your organisation's professional image by allowing e-mail users to recall faulty messages before they leave the MIMEsweeper gateway.
Often, you will know the instant you have hit the send button that a message was wrong, or your colleagues will quickly call you if they notice something wrong with a message you have sent to a mixture of internal and external recipients. Until now, once a message had been sent to external parties it could not be retrieved.
What RecallIT® does
RecallIT allows you to get those faulty messages back and gives you another chance.
RecallIT can eliminate the embarrassment of mistakenly sending a message:
- That is incomplete (e.g. forgetting to include an attachment referred to in the body, or pressing "send" too early by mistake)
- To an unintended recipient
- With content you discover is out of date or incorrect immediately after sending it. (e.g. copying a message, changing the address but forgetting to change the salutation)
- Containing more than you intended (e.g. forgetting to take old e-mail content and attachments off when replying or forwarding)
- Containing wrong words which are spelled correctly (e.g. Retards instead of Regards, Toady instead of Today or Bets Wishes instead of Best Wishes)
- To external parties that is intended for internal circulation only
RecallIT briefly holds e-mail at the MIMEsweeper gateway after it has passed all relevant MIMEsweeper policies. This gives you a chance to recall the message if necessary.
RecallIT uses Subject Line Parameters to override the default delay on a message-by-message basis. Urgent messages can be "stamped" to leave immediately if required. Other messages can be stamped as embargoed until specific times. Embargoing allows sensitive information to be released to all interested parties at a specified time or for large mail outs to be sent during work hours but not transmitted until after working hours.
How RecallIT® works
RecallIT introduces a policy controlled delay in sending e-mail, thereby giving the sender the chance to recall messages if necessary.
The elements of the centrally defined recall policy are:
Whether e-mail from an internal sender can be recalled or not
The duration of the delay period for the e-mail
For example:
Mail from *@sss.co.nz delay 5 minutes
where *@sss.co.nz is the internal address range to which the policy applies.
Users can manage their messages by using RecallIT's browser based user interface. Recalled messages can be amended and resent. Selected messages can be released immediately or held indefinitely. Subject to confirmation, messages can also be deleted.
Username/password access to the GUI is authenticated against Active Directory, or against other LDAP directory servers if SSS's LDAPtIT intelligent LDAP proxy is also installed.
Each message is encrypted to preserve message confidentiality whilst waiting for the recall delay to expire. At the end of the delay period, the stored message is decrypted and sent.
RecallIT understands three time zones; working hours, night time and weekends/holidays. If a company policy states that no messages should leave the gateway in the weekend, RecallIT can hold all messages until Monday morning.
RecallIT provides a Subject Line Parameter to "stamp" a message with an E-mail Protective Marking to show it is for internal distribution only. RecallIT will hold messages marked in this way indefinitely when sent to external addresses.
RecallIT also provides a Subject Line Parameter that allows you to add a warning to the subject line for consumption by internal recipients. RecallIT strips this warning before transmitting the message. This may be used to let internal recipients know who was sent a BCC.
More Info:
Scientific Software and Systems Limited
New Zealand
Telephone +64 4 917-6670
e-mail: info@sss.co.nz
