Making the email being 'Confidential' (so that it cannot be forwarded on)

[ericknizard]

Hello - we are trying to send users with information via an email using vizalert. For some of these emails, we need to ensure that the recipient doesn't forward the email on i.e. selecting the 'Do Not Forward' option in Outlook (under File > Encrypt).

How can this be achieved?

[ericknizard]

@mcoles @jdrummey - any chance you can provide us with some pointers on how to achieve this?

[jdrummey]

@ericknizard VizAlerts uses the smptlib library that uses the standard SMTP protocol to connect to mail servers like Exchange, Gmail, etc.

Exchange/Outlook has a number of features that aren't part of the SMTP protocol so you'd have to rewrite the mailer portion of VizAlerts (emailer.py) to use a different library for interacting with Exchange (and you'd need to find that library and make sure it's up to date with your version of Exchange) plus add the necessary code & config options in VizAlerts for making some emails be encrypted vs. others.