Receiving "private" emails from Outlook

[Laura Puryear]

I need to open two private emails sent to me from someone using Outlook.
The email attachment is titled message.rpmsg. When I click on the
attachment, it asks me if I am sure that I want to open it and when I click
open, nothing happens.

The body of the message says that I have received a message with restricted
permission. If you are not running Microsoft Office 2003 or an e-mail
application that supports messages with restricted permission, you can view
this message by downloading the Rights Management Add-on for Internet
Explorer from
http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidRestrictedPermissionViewer?clid=1033

When I go to that site to download it, it downloads a validation tool to
make sure that I am running real Microsoft products (I have legal Office)
but when I try to open the downloaded executable file, it says that I don't
have an application which can open it.

Any ideas?

 

[Barry Wainwright]

I need to open two private emails sent to me from someone using Outlook.
The email attachment is titled message.rpmsg. When I click on the
attachment, it asks me if I am sure that I want to open it and when I click
open, nothing happens.

The body of the message says that I have received a message with restricted
permission. If you are not running Microsoft Office 2003 or an e-mail
application that supports messages with restricted permission, you can view
this message by downloading the Rights Management Add-on for Internet
Explorer from
http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidRestrictedPermissionViewer?clid=1033

When I go to that site to download it, it downloads a validation tool to
make sure that I am running real Microsoft products (I have legal Office)
but when I try to open the downloaded executable file, it says that I don't
have an application which can open it.

Any ideas?

sorry to say but the Rights Management stuff is windows only - to read the
emails on the mac you will have to get your correspondent to use a more
widely available encryption technique.

If they use industry standard digital signatures and encryption then Office
2008 will have no problem receiving, decoding and displaying the messages.

learn more about digital signatures here:

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/smime/index.html