Password Protect Emails........

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Paul Uttley

Hi Everyone,

I have had a request from a customer, asking if they can password
protect emails.

What they want to do is send emails internally to the Partners of the
company and not risk anyone else seeing them, so if someone walks past
a partner's pc and decides to open up a particular email that is
password protected they won't be able to (without the password that
is).

I know what your going to say, that they should lock their desktops or
log off or even set outlook to prompt for a password on opening.

I am planning on telling them all this but i just wanted to see if
there was anything out there that would let them achieve this.

Thanks for your time.

Paul
 
No.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Paul Uttley asked:

| Hi Everyone,
|
| I have had a request from a customer, asking if they can password
| protect emails.
|
| What they want to do is send emails internally to the Partners of the
| company and not risk anyone else seeing them, so if someone walks past
| a partner's pc and decides to open up a particular email that is
| password protected they won't be able to (without the password that
| is).
|
| I know what your going to say, that they should lock their desktops or
| log off or even set outlook to prompt for a password on opening.
|
| I am planning on telling them all this but i just wanted to see if
| there was anything out there that would let them achieve this.
|
| Thanks for your time.
|
| Paul
 
How can I keep my daughter (age 8) from opening my emails on the same
computer, same Outlook?

DOn
 
Password protect the entire .pst file (1), teach your daughter some manners
(2) get her own profile set up to use her own Outlook/Windows Profiles (3).

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Don Smith asked:

| How can I keep my daughter (age 8) from opening my emails on the same
| computer, same Outlook?
|
| DOn
|
| On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:38:42 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
|
|| No.
||
|| --?
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Paul Uttley asked:
||
||| Hi Everyone,
|||
||| I have had a request from a customer, asking if they can password
||| protect emails.
|||
||| What they want to do is send emails internally to the Partners of
||| the company and not risk anyone else seeing them, so if someone
||| walks past a partner's pc and decides to open up a particular email
||| that is password protected they won't be able to (without the
||| password that is).
|||
||| I know what your going to say, that they should lock their desktops
||| or log off or even set outlook to prompt for a password on opening.
|||
||| I am planning on telling them all this but i just wanted to see if
||| there was anything out there that would let them achieve this.
|||
||| Thanks for your time.
|||
||| Paul
 
Paul Uttley said:
Hi Everyone,

I have had a request from a customer, asking if they can password
protect emails.
Click to expand...

Have them get a security certificate to install in Outlook that will let
them encrypt their e-mails. Actually, you encrypt e-mails using the
recipient's public key: you use their public key to encrypt your e-mail
that you send to them so they can decrypt it using their private key.
So the potential recipient needs to send you a digitally signed e-mail
so you can save their public key which you then use to encrypt a message
you send to them. Thawte gives out freebie e-mail certs but they don't
identify you beyond your e-mail address (they have their Web of Trust
mechanism for getting more info into your cert to better identify you to
your recipient when you digitally sign your messages).
What they want to do is send emails internally to the Partners of the
company and not risk anyone else seeing them, so if someone walks past
a partner's pc and decides to open up a particular email that is
password protected they won't be able to (without the password that
is).
Click to expand...

If this person is leaving their computer completely open (no
password-protected screen saver, not logging out) then anything that
person can do to unscramble an e-mail to read it is also obviously
available to the passerby. If you don't restrict physical access to the
computer or otherwise disable it from use while away, you have
deliberately chosen to let anyone do anything that you can do.
I know what your going to say, that they should lock their desktops or
log off or even set outlook to prompt for a password on opening.
Click to expand...

Actually it is quite easy. They can define a desktop shortcut or one of
the keys of a programmable keyboard (there are lots of those) to execute
the following command:

rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

This locks the computer immediately instead of waiting for the screen
saver to kick in. Just before they walk away, they click the shortcut
or press the key.
 
Don Smith said:
How can I keep my daughter (age 8) from opening my emails on the same
computer, same Outlook?
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