Can I prevent my mail from being forwarded by others?

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It's quite possible you've NOT been hacked. I get bogus bounce messages all the time. This article may help explain a little: http://ask-leo.com/someones_sending_from_my_email_address_how_do_i_stop_them.html

There is a possible solution.

Create a form using the standard Outlook email message. Edit the Properties of the "To" field to include a validation (such as [To] = "recipients_email"), or, simply disable Replying, Forwarding, etc. in the form. Save the form, then use it to send emails.

Food for thought. :)

Hardly. There's nothing to prevent someone from copy/pasting your message into a new message. Or for another mail program that doesn't use forms to ignore everything you've set up and simply allow forwarding.

"I'll put it more clearly: you cannot prevent someone from forwarding your email, and you also can't prevent them from changing it before they do so..."

Not true, there's all sorts of access control software out there, and one specifically that works right out of Outlook... http://www.essentialsecurity.com/products.htm

I stand by my statement. Anything that can be viewed on-screen can be forwarded one way or another.

Saffe does pretty much all of the above (prevent forwarding, make difficult to copy/modify,...). The main drawback is that your recipient has to click on a link to view your message. Other than that it's basically used like regular email. Check it out http://www.saffe.com

Someone keeps hacking my email and then giving my password back. So that I'm able to use my email and then at other times I'm not. Can you tell me how to make my hotmail secure so that the hacker cannot hack it again? Please reply quickly before the hacker hacks my email again!

I read the article and comments, but nothing seems close to what happened to me. This is everyone's worst nightmare: My ENTIRE hotmail account of 1,600 e-mail messages (received since 2003) was somehow recently sent to a friend's PC! I was working on another friend's computer sending out notices of an upcoming event. Oddly,here was no reply button, so I sent each individual an email by going to file and send. A weird box came up that warned of either a virus or worm, but also stated it could mean I was simply sending out repeated text. The warning asked if I still wanted to send (which I did, as much of the text was indeed repeated text of the same event). Soon thereafter, three of my friends reported receiving emails from the owner of the PC with strange attachments. The owner, an honest person, denys this. As mentioned, only one of these friends (boyfriend) also received my WHOLE email account with access to all my private mail! Does it sound as if my account was hacked into, or the PC I was using, or perhaps the PC of the recepient of my 1,6000 private emails? Needless to say this is a nightmare. Is there any possiblity the receiver of these e-mails could even be responsible? How do I find out? Who should I report this to? My privacy was grossly violated! Thanks.

I recently received a spoof email that I can NOT forward to the spoofed bank's investigation section or anyone else (not even to myself). I can forward any other message to anyone I like. What's going on?

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No way to know without more details of how it's failing.

Thanks,

Leo

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