Prevent Receipent from Forwarding Mail Messages?

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I've used email packages in the past that allow you to block an email message from being forwarded to someone else by the receipent. How can I do this in Outlook?
 
Diane Poremsky said:
only outlook 2003 offers the capability.
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And only Outlook 2003 will obey it.
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Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
Not true. The design of this prevents *any* client from forwarding or
copying protected messages.

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Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
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Jeff Stephenson said:
Not true. The design of this prevents *any* client from forwarding or
copying protected messages.
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Only if the client is written in such a manner as to obey the overhead
information. Outlook Express V4 or Eudora V3, for example, would probably
ignore the injunction.
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Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
No. Otherwise the whole exercise would have been pointless. While I'm not
an expert on this feature, I do know that the message is cryptographically
protected, and you can only read it by connecting to a rights management
server with a particular client. My understanding is that Outlook Express
or Eudora would not display the message itself - they would have to invoke
that client to display the message, and that client will not allow any of
the actions that were disallowed by the sender. Yes, you could forward the
message from one of them, but the forwarded message would be unreadable.

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Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
 
Jeff Stephenson said:
Yes, you could forward the message from
one of them, but the forwarded message would be unreadable.
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Then technically, I'm correct. You said the message couldn't be forwarded.
That is, by your own admission, untrue. Whether or not the message is
readable after forwarding is an entirely separate issue than not being able
to forward it in the first place, in my opinion.
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Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
No. Otherwise the whole exercise would have been pointless. While I'm not
an expert on this feature, I do know that the message is cryptographically
protected, and you can only read it by connecting to a rights management
server with a particular client. My understanding is that Outlook Express
or Eudora would not display the message itself - they would have to invoke
that client to display the message, and that client will not allow any of
the actions that were disallowed by the sender. Yes, you could forward the
message from one of them, but the forwarded message would be unreadable.
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O.K., your response raises another question:
You say that the message can only be read by connecting to a rights
management server. How do I, as a message receiver, connect to that
server in order to read that message in the first place? Are you
saying that both the sender & the receiver have to have access to the
same protected server, i.e., an Exchange server?
 
I really don't know the details. I suspect that something in the message
indicates which server Outlook needs to connect to - it would be transparent
to you as an end-user.
 
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