Microsoft Outlook email - Children's email

Vince Averello [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

In the Junk E-mail filter settings you can use the "White List only"
setting. Then only the addresses/domains you want will go to the Inbox

"Doug" wrote in message
...
My 11 year old wants an email address. Can I setup a filter in Outlook
2003
that will only allow select email addresses to send email to my child? My
OS
is Windows Vista Home premium.

But since this is defined within the mail profile used by the child, why
couldn't the child then delete the filter? Outlook wasn't designed to
censor a user against themself. An 11 year-old can certainly figure out
how to wander around in the configuration settings of Outlook. Of
course, censoring who can send her e-mails when she is at home won't do
anything to block them when she is at school, an Internet cafe, or at a
public library, or for her to create her own e-mail account that Dad
doesn't know about.

Some e-mail providers will provide admin and user privileges on an
account. That is, the owner of the account can make setting changes
that the user cannot alter. So, for example, the owner can setup a
whitelist and enable a setting to allow e-mails only from senders in
that whitelist. While the user can login to their account via the
webmail interface, they cannot alter those owner-protected settings.
Whether doable depends on whether or not the e-mail provider supports
this dual-mode login (where owner can do more than a user). Obviously
none of this has any effect if daughter doesn't actually use that
censored account and instead goes create her own (at the same e-mail
provider or elsewhere), creates another mail profile for those other
accounts, or uses their webmail interface instead of Outlook.

Because Doug used Microsoft's webnews interface, and since Microsoft
lies about the sender's ID in the NNTP-Posting-Host header (and no
longer includes the sender's IP address in their X-WBNR-Posting-Host
header), I can't tell from which ISP that Doug used to submit his post,
but then he might be using a different e-mail provider than his ISP. If
Doug is using Comcast then what I described is available for censoring
which senders are allowed and preventing the user from altering that
list.