From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: May 17, 2007
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: "This message is being watched"?
>
> Leo,
> My boss asked me to send him 4 quick emails (one right after another) to
> be sure his server will forward me my work mail to my personal outlook
> hotmail account. I asked him if this will allow him to read my hotmail
> and he said no. However, I notice more and more that someone is
> flagging certain emails as "this message is being watched" in red copy
> with a pair of eyeglasses in a column. I never flag my messages and in
> fact I put all my email in a separate off line folder and waited to see
> if it happened again AND it did.
>
> Outlook express is my personal email with bank statements coming to me
> and I would hate to think my employer is hijacking my outlook email
> account and might have access to personal information.
>
> I don;t know why my messages are being flagged as being watched, I'm
> certainly not doing it. Any suggestions?
Well, there is in Outlook Express a flag for watching messages.
Select a message, and on the Message menu you can click on "Watch".
If that's happening automatically, the only thing I can think of is
that a message rule has been set to automatically flag the message
as watched. Go to Tools->MessageRules->Mail and see if there are any
existing rules that appear to be doing this.
It does NOT mean that someone else is watching - it simply means that
the message has been flagged within Outlook Express, nothing more.
It's intended as a way for *you* to keep an eye on important conversations.
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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