Monitor outgoing E-mails

[Hamilton McWhorter]

Hello,

Sorry for the double post but I got no response from the other group I
posted this message to.


I have been asked to begin monitoring the outgoing e-mails of some of our
users. We are using Outlook 2003 and our e-mail is hosted by our ISP. Does
anyone out there have any ideas on how we can accomplish this with maybe a
rule or an add-on application?

Any help would be appreciated,

Hamilton

 

[Guest]

What kind of monitoring do you need to do? Do you just need to know if mail
arrive, when it arrives, etc.?
As far as I know the only tool Outlook really provides is the read
receipt/delivery receipt function.

Doug

 

[Hamilton McWhorter]

Thanks Doug,

We need to monitor the actual messages being sent from Outlook, we are
trying to monitor intelectual property being sent out of the company. A copy
of all messages being sent would do it.

- Hamilton

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

The only effective way of doing this would be some sort of agreement with
your ISP to have a copy of all messages submitted from your company be
delivered to a particular mailbox - anything else is easily circumvented.

Another option is Digital Rights Management (DRM), but that requires a DRM
server.

Of course it's all moot unless you've taken steps to ensure that people
can't walk out of their offices with either print-outs or floppy disks
containing the information...