Prevent Forwarding ... I.e. Security

[craigtone]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: Exchange Several corporate e-mail clients have security features that prevent Reply To All and Forwarding of e-mails if the flags are set for that message.

Does Entourage have any such capability?

 

[Pawan Kapoor]

This feature is called IRM and unfortunately Entourage doesn't support this.
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: Exchange Several corporate e-mail clients have security features that prevent Reply To All and Forwarding of e-mails if the flags are set for that message.

Does Entourage have any such capability?

 

[Nadyne_Richmond]

Pawan's answer is right, let me add a few more details here to make sure that everything is totally clear.

What craigtone is talking about, where you can say "I don't want this email to be forwarded" or "I don't want the recipients of this email to be able to reply-all" is called Information Rights Management (IRM). It's not something that you can do alone on your client. It's something that the server manages.

To use IRM, you need both a client and a server that support it. Exchange does; neither POP nor IMAP does. Entourage does not support IRM. Outlook:Mac, which is part of Office:Mac 2011 and will be released later this year, does support IRM. If you're on Exchange 2010, you can also create and consume IRM messages via Outlook Web Access in either Safari or Firefox.

Regards,
Nadyne.

 

[Conrad]

Also, this really is a worthless security feature, as it is trivially
circumvented. It only stops the most clueless of users. At best, it
gives a false sense of security, as there really is no way to stop
this. Best to keep it turned off and not pretend like it's going to
do anything.