create a message that cannot be forwarded

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Hello,
How do you create a message that cannot be forwarded?
It does not look like private, personal, or confidential will work.

thanks
 
What is your goal? Suppose you can disable forwarding, what makes you think
users can't copy/paste email content then create a new mail (perhaps save
and re-attach files) and send to others?
 
John said:
What is your goal? Suppose you can disable forwarding, what makes you
think users can't copy/paste email content then create a new mail (perhaps
save and re-attach files) and send to others?
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Well, a DRM'd message in Exchange prevents the copy/paste too.

It doesn't prevent someone from manually retyping the message, of course.
 
greg said:
Hello,
How do you create a message that cannot be forwarded?
It does not look like private, personal, or confidential will work.
Click to expand...


You have no control over your e-mail message once you hand it off to
the mail server. Thankfully, you don't get to control someone else's
host or their software.
 
F. H. Muffman said:
Well, a DRM'd message in Exchange prevents the copy/paste too.

It doesn't prevent someone from manually retyping the message, of course.
Click to expand...

My point exactly. Too lazy to retype? No problem... Print Screen and paste
on to new mail :-)
 
Just a technical correction, that would be IRM not DRM.

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After furious head scratching, F. H. Muffman asked:

| "John" <a> wrote in message
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||| How do you create a message that cannot be forwarded?
||| It does not look like private, personal, or confidential will work.
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|| What is your goal? Suppose you can disable forwarding, what makes you
|| think users can't copy/paste email content then create a new mail
|| (perhaps save and re-attach files) and send to others?
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| Well, a DRM'd message in Exchange prevents the copy/paste too.
|
| It doesn't prevent someone from manually retyping the message, of
| course.
 
John said:
My point exactly. Too lazy to retype? No problem... Print Screen and paste
on to new mail :-)
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From the 'pulling statistics out my butt' department:

I'd wager 75% of security isn't about making something unbreakable, but
about making things *difficult*. Like the spikey plants in front of a
window. It doesn't prevent someone from getting in, it just makes it
harder. Barbed wire is *easy* to get through when you're going slow. (well
heck, it's easy when you're fast too, you just throw a really thick blanket
over it.)

A DRM'd message is sufficiently difficult to pass along to another person
verbatim for most people.
 
F. H. Muffman said:
From the 'pulling statistics out my butt' department:

I'd wager 75% of security isn't about making something unbreakable, but
about making things *difficult*. Like the spikey plants in front of a
window. It doesn't prevent someone from getting in, it just makes it
harder. Barbed wire is *easy* to get through when you're going slow.
(well heck, it's easy when you're fast too, you just throw a really thick
blanket over it.)

A DRM'd message is sufficiently difficult to pass along to another person
verbatim for most people.
Click to expand...

Of course. Btw, VanguardLH reply pretty much sums it up. I'm still curious
to know what OP's intention is.
 
F. H. Muffman said:
Well, a DRM'd message in Exchange prevents the copy/paste too.
Click to expand...


Won't prevent a screen or window capture utility from getting the
content, and using an OCR app (forget the name of the free one) from
converting from image (in the selected section) to text.

If the user can see it, they can copy it.
 
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