>A customer of ours distributes a standard text email via Imail's List
>server to paying subscribers. He's asking if there is any method to
>prevent a subscriber from forwarding that message. Is this possible? Any ideas?
It's impossible.
There is no part of the SMTP protocol that allows you to prevent
forwarding. And, even if there were, it would only be able to disable the
forwarding in the E-mail client; a user could still cut and paste if they
wanted to.
-Scott
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