by zsolt » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:02 am
Dear All, here is the summary of this post:
Customers request was a bit unusual
- he wanted to be able to hide away one folder in his email client but let other folders be readable.
- The reason for this was that he gives his Mac to coworkers to process his nonconfidential emails, but want to hide away the confidential ones.
I gave it a try by creating a local folder in the Apple Mail and drag the confidential emails into that folder. This moved the emails out of the mail account, and into the local folder.
Then I protected this folder in espionage.
If I would start mail while the folder was locked, it was not possible to access the emails, but the from and subject field were still visible if I would click on the local folder in Apple Mail. So it was partially OK.
If the folder would be unlocked when starting Mail then all would be normal, mails completely accessible.
HOWEVER: on subsequent testing it was not behaving completely consistent.
So this might work, if you are OK with the fact that the subject and from field are visible, but would require some more testing.
Doing this in MS Outlook for Mac was not possible due to folder structure, which is hardly human readable i.e. predictable, you will not know which folder to protect because the folder names on the disk and in Outlook are completely different.
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However, considering the subject and from field was visible, customer was not satisfied so finally we created an additional email account, customer would drag the public email to the other account, and protected his entire email folder.
In this way the coworkers were processing the email using their own mac and accessing the email through the public email account and all the emails on the "main" mac were completely protected.
FYI
Zsolt
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