I just noticed that a mail (MS Xchange 2007) that was right protected and sent to me could be copied and pasted on my desktop/flash drive (which to my amazement i thought wasn't going to be possible).

Due to this observation i would just want to know if it would be possible for any one with access to such a copied mail to open/crack the mail on another system "off-line"
(Not in my Domain).

Timmedin:

If you copy a right protected mail from your mail box to your flash drive for use in a meeting with someone else in your organization (lets say you happen to be the CSO of your company with vital information about your company in the mail)...

However along the way someone else was able to pickup your flash (without you knowing "coping the content there of to his notebook") with the aim of selling the information in it to a rival company(competitor)...

What i am asking here is that: "is it possible for the guy with a copy of your right protected mail to crack it open and view/print its content there of"

Are you talking about making an email private?  Which means that you cannot forward the email directly to someone else?

Are you using something like Windows Rights Management Services, and your question stems from that?

Don