V-cards

[Guest]

If I send a business card via Outlook or Outlook express can the recipient
then access all my e-mails via the activities tab? It would appear that any
contact could then access my files.How can I send a v-card so that ONLY my
business details appear? I don't want people looking in my private mail.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can stop being paranoid about this. No one is monitoring the activities in your Outlook folders. A vCard is a text file that contains information about a contact. You can see this for yourself by opening it in Notepad. It contains no information about activities. It contains no information about activities.

The Activities page builds a list *on the fly* of items related to the current contact. It builds that list from the *current user's* Outlook folders. If someone has activities related to you, they'll see them when they open the vCard you sent, because Outlook creates one of its own contacts from the vCard. If you open that vCard yourself, Outlook creates a contact with your information on it, and that contact's Activities page will show all the activities in your folders involving you.

If you still don't believe me, save the vCard to your hard drive and open it in Notepad.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

No, they won't see the activities. They only show up on your machine when
you open the vCard. If the contact record you create the vCard from only
contains your business info (addresses, phone numbers & such) you should be
fine.