I have a question - is there anyway that I can *prevent* my H from forwarding my emails or portions of them? Some piece of software that, perhaps, scrambles the message when it is forwarded? When he was with XOW, he forwarded all of her emails, and I just want to make sure that any correspondence between us does not get forwarded to another party. He uses a PC and I use a *real* computer - a Mac. <P>Any ideas?<P>belld

Hi Belldandy,<P>I work in the computer industry and I can not think of any way to prevent him from forwarding the message. Even if you encryption software he would un-encrypt it at his end to read. At that point it could be forwarded without you ever knowing it. <P>If you are worried that he is forwarding your email than I would suggest you would not write anything that you would not want anyone else to read. Sounds hard but I just can not think of any way from preventing this.

I'm not sure that there is too much you can do unless you have access to his PC. If you do you could use one of those keystroke logging programs to at least find out what he was doing.<P>There was a security flaw in Java-ennabled email clients which was in the news not long ago which could possibly allow you to at least know if he was doing this. See <A HREF="http://www.bugnet.com/alerts/bugalert_010215.html" TARGET=_blank>this link</A> . You'd have to find the code unless you're a JavaScript expert . If you're really determined you might try a search for it. I think it saw it somewhere once. I'd be cautious about downloads from any source that published it, though.<P>More important from an MB perspective, of course, is addressing why you feel the need for email security with him. I do understand the need to know where one stands, though.<P>Steve

I'm a software engineer with many years of experience. Once your email is in his inbox he can do anything he wants with it. Like forward it to anyone he wants to.<P>Z

What about putting my message in a document that can be read only by Acrobat Reader? There's no way he could edit the content of that, could he? At least if I had that option, I would know that the entire message was being fowarded, instead of just bits and pieces of it. (???)<P>belld

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by belldandy:<BR><B>What about putting my message in a document that can be read only by Acrobat Reader? There's no way he could edit the content of that, could he<BR></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Sorry, but it's easy to cut and paste. He could just paste from Acrobat into his message. I paste from other applications into email all the time.<P>Sorry we're not able to be more helpful.<P>Steve<BR>

Nope. Anything that's sent to someone can be forwarded. Or just copied and pasted as someone else suggested. Of course no one can forward the e-mail that's never sent.<P>As someone else suggested, you could check his e-mail program and may be able to tell if he is doing this. Depends on how careful he's being and what he knows about how the software works.<BR>