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When do you NOT help?
05/18/2009 12:47:26 PM by Chris Toohey
I was contacted the other day by someone who came across my website -- specifically my Disabling $KeepPrivate documents! article -- who was looking for a method to add a Readers-type NotesItem to selected emails in his mail NotesDatabase. The issue that he was running into, he explained, was that his company prohibited personal Agents (and I suspect that each user only has Manager access to their mail NotesDatabase).
After explaining the potential issues with doing this - from the obvious "you could potentially lock yourself out" to the potential legal and corporate policy implications - I found out that he was concerned about his "nosey" boss reading his email.
Now, while I want this person to know that there are capabilities within the Lotus Notes client that will allow them to gain a richer experience and can improve the way that they perform their day-to-day functions, I don't want to condone such actions by me telling him how to do this.
And therein lies an issue: where do you draw the line?
I like to consider myself - at times - a Lotus White Hatter, but one person's White Hat can be another's Black Hatter. And in this particular case, I think the actions - at best - would be considered black hat, if not actionable!
So, Constant Reader, have you run into a similar situation?
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I show them how to look at the User activity and to set it to confidential. That way unless the manager has a copy of his ID, he can see if someone is accessing his mail file.
Ask them to put the request with reason in writing and forward with their manager's approval. =)
This is a tough one but typically I would be asking them what is their corporate policy on matters like this. Many will have something in place telling what a user's role is and what they should/should not be doing. They may have even signed something that says they will not alter or try to work around this.
You certainly don't want to be the one that is finger pointed toward when they say, 'Chris helped me change this...'
Why not tell him? If the company's policy allows his manager to read his email, then when he can't, it'll be the IT department's issue to follow up on. If the company's policy *doesn't* allow his manager to read his email, then you've just helped him protect himself.
If the guy's too stupid or lazy to get a Gmail account for stuff he doesn't want his boss to read, that's not your responsibility or concern.
I like Bruce's answer a lot.
I guess I'd answer his question by pointing him to the properties box, and also caution that there are ways for an admin to set things up so that sent/received email at the server level, outside of his email db entirely. There are also companies that employ software like Spectre Pro.
Also, his company computer and email are company owned, and he probably shouldn't feel any legal or ethical objections with a company reading its own email.
If he wants to have personal email his employer can't see, he should do it on a non-company email account with non-company equipment.
And hey, I'm not proud to admit that on one of my first professional jobs I had set up my laptop to have a secret, encrypted partition on the hard drive. *shrug* I'm happy to say I've grown up since then. He should too.
I think I'd be tempted to give him the code to put in a button that would turn a message into a bit of a honey pot. Set a juicy title on it, and store the form with an on-open agent that sends mail showing who read it.
You might even be able to do that with @formulas that set the proper background fields to return receipt, not having done so yet, and make the return recipient yourself. That wouldn't even trigger an ECL warning because the code that runs happens when he sets the trap.