v-cards

[Spoonbill]

I was amazed to see that under the activities tab on my v-card in OUtlook
2003, it is populated with all my contacts, deleted e-mails junk-e-mails,
inbox -- you name it. I sent the v-card to my brother, and he received this
info with my v-card. I am hesitant to send the v-card to anyone -- how do
you block the items from the activities tab?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can stop being paranoid about this. No one can monitor the activities in your Outlook folders. A vCard is a text file that contains information about a contact. You can see this for yourself by opening it in Notepad. It contains no information about activities. REPEATING: It contains no information about activities.

The Activities page builds a list *on the fly* of items related to the current contact. It builds that list from the *current user's* Outlook folders. If someone has activities related to you, they'll see them when they open the vCard you sent, because Outlook creates one of its own contacts from the vCard. If you open that vCard yourself, Outlook creates a contact with your information on it, and that contact's Activities page will show all the activities in your folders involving you.

If you still don't believe me, save the vCard to your hard drive and open it in Notepad.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers