Internet mail service providers Yahoo, Gmail and others will be asked to route all emails access in India through the Indian Servers, even if the mail account was registered outside, reports the Times of India.
The decision was taken after IndianSecurity agencies failed to access the email accounts of suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists because they needed the permission from a European nation where the email server was located and the account opened to do so.
During a recent high-level meeting held in the office of Union Home Secretary R K Singh, the Department of Information Technology (DIT) was asked to take up the matter at the earliest with the content providers.
During the meeting, director general from CERT-in informed that content provider Yahoo automatically locates all email accounts registered in India to the server in India, minutes of the meeting said.
However, Yahoo accounts registered outside India and subsequently accessed from India are routed through servers outside India, it said.
"It was decided to advice Yahoo, Gmail etc that all emails accessed from India should be routed through servers in India," it said, adding that the DIT would take up the matter with the content providers.
The decision was taken after IndianSecurity agencies failed to access the email accounts of suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists because they needed the permission from a European nation where the email server was located and the account opened to do so.
During a recent high-level meeting held in the office of Union Home Secretary R K Singh, the Department of Information Technology (DIT) was asked to take up the matter at the earliest with the content providers.
During the meeting, director general from CERT-in informed that content provider Yahoo automatically locates all email accounts registered in India to the server in India, minutes of the meeting said.
However, Yahoo accounts registered outside India and subsequently accessed from India are routed through servers outside India, it said.
"It was decided to advice Yahoo, Gmail etc that all emails accessed from India should be routed through servers in India," it said, adding that the DIT would take up the matter with the content providers.