Locking Outlook Folders for Privacy

  • Thread starter Thread starter Martin
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Martin said:
Is anyone aware of a way to lock certain folders within
Outlook for privacy?

Thanks
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Set up the folders you want to protect in their own pst and then
password-protect the pst.
 
You can set permissions on folders. What are you trying to prevent? Don't
give anyone your network credentials, lock your workstation when not in use,
and don't allow other authenticated users to access your data, and you'll be
okay.

Ray at work
 
Ray at said:
You can set permissions on folders. What are you trying to prevent?
Don't give anyone your network credentials, lock your workstation
when not in use, and don't allow other authenticated users to access
your data, and you'll be okay.

Ray at work
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Not in Outlook you can't, there is only one file containing ALL the Outlook
folders don't forget. You can set permissions on the pst as a whole using
the OS. I think what the OP was after is protecting some folders within the
pst itself.
 
No, not in a PST setup, but in an Exchange environment. The OP didn't
specify his setup, so I should have qualified my response appropriately. My
bad. ;]

Ray at work
 
Ray at said:
No, not in a PST setup, but in an Exchange environment. The OP didn't
specify his setup, so I should have qualified my response
appropriately. My bad. ;]
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Ahh, the exchange environment is beyond my ken, so to speak........
 
Ray at said:
No, not in a PST setup, but in an Exchange environment. The OP didn't
specify his setup, so I should have qualified my response
appropriately. My bad. ;]

Ray at work

Not in Outlook you can't, there is only one file containing ALL the
Outlook folders don't forget. You can set permissions on the pst as
a whole using the OS. I think what the OP was after is protecting
some folders within the t itself.
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So in an exchange Environment, all the Users mail folders are separate,
rather like the dbx files in OE?
 
Actually, everyone's e-mail is all in one giant file, an Exchange database
file. .edb Where, there are two files, one for private (users mailboxes)
and one for public folders. So, if you lose your .edb files and don't do
backups, a) you should be fired, and b) everyone loses his e-mail. [: But
that's just like any other database system, although some database systems
allow you to span over multiple files, but for all intents and purposes,
it's all just one file.

Ray at work
 
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