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I've got a quick little question. I'm working on an Outlook addin for a
company I work for and the way it works is it encypts an email a special way
when it is sent and decrypts using a certain algorithm on the reciever's
end. Currently, the way this is done is it encrypts the email through a
special technique and then zips it up as an attachment to a dummy email.
When the reciever gets this email, they double click on the email and the
addin kicks in and performs a routine that unzips the file with its
password, decrypts the file, and copies its contents into and email.
Depending on the sender's options, it then saves this as the email message
so you don't have to decrypt it everytime (unless the sender chooses to send
it that way). My question is this, one of our testers currently had a
problem that I was unaware of happening. She is using MSN.com as an email
and has her Outlook email account set up as an HTTP server. She can send
email fine, but when recieving one of these special emails, she gets the
error: "messages on the server cannot be modified." She can moved the email
to a local inbox folder and open it fine. I assume the problem here is when
she opens an email from her MSN inbox, the addin cannot gives this error
because it is attempting to make some changes to the email that the msn.com
http server will not allow. This program will soon have to be altered to
work with exchange servers as well and this problem might creep up there as
well. I was wondering if anyone knew of a quick fix to this problem just in
case we have more customers who use an HTTP mail account with Outlook. I
thought about programmatically copying the email to the local inbox and the
decrypting it but I am hoping for a better solution. Thanks.
Joe B
guide[nospam]rygil@hot[[nomorespam!]]m ail.com
company I work for and the way it works is it encypts an email a special way
when it is sent and decrypts using a certain algorithm on the reciever's
end. Currently, the way this is done is it encrypts the email through a
special technique and then zips it up as an attachment to a dummy email.
When the reciever gets this email, they double click on the email and the
addin kicks in and performs a routine that unzips the file with its
password, decrypts the file, and copies its contents into and email.
Depending on the sender's options, it then saves this as the email message
so you don't have to decrypt it everytime (unless the sender chooses to send
it that way). My question is this, one of our testers currently had a
problem that I was unaware of happening. She is using MSN.com as an email
and has her Outlook email account set up as an HTTP server. She can send
email fine, but when recieving one of these special emails, she gets the
error: "messages on the server cannot be modified." She can moved the email
to a local inbox folder and open it fine. I assume the problem here is when
she opens an email from her MSN inbox, the addin cannot gives this error
because it is attempting to make some changes to the email that the msn.com
http server will not allow. This program will soon have to be altered to
work with exchange servers as well and this problem might creep up there as
well. I was wondering if anyone knew of a quick fix to this problem just in
case we have more customers who use an HTTP mail account with Outlook. I
thought about programmatically copying the email to the local inbox and the
decrypting it but I am hoping for a better solution. Thanks.
Joe B
guide[nospam]rygil@hot[[nomorespam!]]m ail.com