> I have a requirement to have an email account that is so secure that
> only the account owner and whomever he decides to share it with know
> the  password  and  thus have access to the account. As we currently
> have  IMail  setup, the account admin can get into anyone's account.

In  fact, anyone with interactive or SMB access to the user's MBX file
has access to the account, since mailbox contents can be transparently
relocated.

As  Terry  has suggested, AD/SAM integration offers the possibility of
administrative delegation of password control, but this is essentially
worthless for locking out all IT personnel. It's just plain foolish to
think  that  some  IT person (whether that be the CFO, MIS manager, or
sysadmin,  or  IT  people  at remote sites) will not be able to access
data transmitted over unencrypted SMTP.

Depending  on  his  savvy,  I wonder how far you could fake it without
using PGP/TLS--you could tell him you've switched to Win2K EFS and the
NT  SAM,  and  not mention just sniffing the packets off the wire--but
you'd surely be faking it.

-Sandy


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