Frankster

You miss the point. MS did not even try to make separate mail accounts
secure from the the [person - singular] on that logon. Therefore there is no
reason to try to protect the db files from the logged on user. If you want
security, create another logon WITHOUT Administrator privileges, just like
the rest of the security minded computer community does. Including other OSs
like Unix.

-Frank

"DGuess" <majik@mindspring.oops> wrote in message
news:91A7A59C-7A66-4890-B22C-8A763B3023DF@microsoft.com...
> The answers I got were they wanted one message store location, a changed
> message store database and should users want separate Identities, use a
> Windows log on account to separate them.
>
> The current message stores are even less secure than before. Each message
> is stored individually as a .eml text file where before it was stored in
> one file in 512kb parts all over the file. To get to those messages, the
> user had to import them into OE where as now, they can just open them and
> with the subject line showing in Vista's Explorer, it's even easier to see
> which message is which unlike the way it is with XP and Windows Live Mail
> desktop, Explorer currently doesn't show the subject line but shows it as
> a hex value. Still the same .eml text file. Just a little harder tofind
> particular mail. (which I have already sorted out that and made it easy to
> read).
>
> If it were for the corruption problem in the dbx files, they would have
> been a bit more secure than the current model.
>
> So saying Identities was probably the reason isn't even close.
>
>
> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
> news:rsGdnW_Dlp5zHXDYnZ2dnUVZ_silnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>> Note, however, that in such a circumstance, the other users can access
>>> each others' messages via Windows > Explorer, so there is no security /
>>> privacy. That can only be achieved by different user logons.
>>
>> Exactly. Which is probably why MS eliminated "Identities" to begin with.
>> False sense of security that never did exist.
>>
>> -Frank
>