Protecting/locking text in an email in Outlook 2003

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Lisa11766

Does anyone know how to prevent the body of an email from being altered? I
saw instructions for File -> Permission, but I don't have that command in my
email toolbox. Help!!!
 
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

That command is for rights management and its only in the higher priced
suites. It's best for corporate users and requires access to a rights
management server.

There are 3rd party tools you can use - see
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/security.asp

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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VanguardLH

Diane said:
That command is for rights management and its only in the higher priced
suites. It's best for corporate users and requires access to a rights
management server.

There are 3rd party tools you can use - see
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/security.asp

What's the probability that your recipients are going to install
software (that THEY don't need), like Mail-Lock or RightsEnforcer, in
order to provide locking on your e-mails that you send them? Nil,
that's what probability. So the OP is not going to lock their e-mails
seen by her recipients if outside an Exchange-RM/Outlook 2007
environment. While a company can enforce its employees to use the same
e-mail client, mail server, and rights and cert servers, you can't do
that to recipients who aren't your employees.

For Lisa, it just ain't gonna happen with her recipients that they'll
install software that Lisa would like them to use to prevent them from
altering her e-mails when they get received. She won't have the control
that she wants over her received e-mails. Also, regardless of these
locking schemes (assuming the recipient is so meek as to kowtow to the
sender's desire that the recipient installs this software), if the
recipient can see it, they can copy it, like using a screen capture
utility and still modify it.
 

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