RE: Forwarding Outlook e-mails

[Kupersmith, Steven]

Title: Fowarding Outlook e-mails

We have looked at this issue and this is what we found:

 

Using Sensitivity of "private" email, no changes can take place in the previously-written text. However, you can add new messages.  (This can be found in on Options on the standard toolbar)

 

Under "confidential" and "personal", one can change the text of what was already written (either additions or deletions).

 

AND, under "private", the re-sender can NOT change the "private" status.

We did not test to see if any attachments could be modified.

 

Hope this helps.

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Steven Kupersmith
Sr. Internal Auditor
Internal Audit Department
Tech Data Corporation 
 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Ikeno, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fowarding Outlook e-mails

In MS Outlook, it is possible to modify an e-mail that was received, then forward it on to someone else.  Seems innocent enough, however, the modified version still appears to the final recipient as if it came from the originator of the initial e-mail.  The whole context of the original e-mail may be changed by simply adding or taking out the word "NOT" or the e-mail may be majorly modified to say something slanderous or totally incorrect and it would seem to have come from the original writer.

The risk is very great for senior management & could even end up as evidence in legal suits.

Other than the use of digital certificates (which are either very cumbersome or can be pretty costly for a whole organization to obtain), has someone found a way to control this weakness in Outlook?