Warning about confidential data on outbound attachments

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Guest

Hi, I'm trying to have Outlook performing a check on the outbound attachment
and if the attachment is confidential, to show a dialog box that warns the
user of the fact and request confirmation before sending.

Ideally Outlook would check the properties of the file being sent for a
keyword, say "confidential", but it would still be good if at least Outlook
can verify whether the string "confidential" is part of the file name (that
implies a naming convention that all confidential docs need to have the word
confidential in their name - but that's alright - not as elegant but ok)

Can anyone help please? Regards, Flavio @ (e-mail address removed)
 
G

Guest

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for your assistance. However, I had tried something similar, but my
programming skills are pretty lame. I just can't figure out how to make
outlook check in the attachment properties and name. Any other suggestions?
 
D

Dmitry Streblechenko

Loop through all the items in the MailItem.Attachments collection and check
the Attachment.FileName property.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool
 

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