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Daimler's Solution for Annoying Out-of-Office Email: Delete it

posted by azrael on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Sure, you can set an out-of-office auto-reply to let others know they shouldn't email you, but that doesn't usually stop the messages; you may still have to handle those urgent-but-not-really requests while you're on vacation. That's not a problem if you work at Daimler, though. The German automaker recently installed software that not only auto-replies to email sent while staff is away, but deletes it outright. If there's a meltdown at the workplace, you may not have to deal with it at all. The move affects about 100,000 employees, so it's clearly going to make an impact.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Leebert on Monday August 18 2014, @06:20AM

    by Leebert (3511) on Monday August 18 2014, @06:20AM (#82494)

    unofficially of course because if it were official that would be destruction of evidence.

    Actually, you have that backwards. If you have a retention policy and are deleting based on that retention policy, you're (generally) cool. If you're deleting OUTSIDE of that retention policy, there might be issues.

    See: https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/protect/retention [eff.org]

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