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Inbox of employees

by jperiasw on 6/6/18, 1:51 AM with 5 comments

• by theshadowknows on 6/6/18, 2:54 AM

  At my company your email inbox, sent, cc, attachments, spam, deleted items...everything is backed up instantly. Once you leave, all of your access is revoked but if necessary our mail admin can retrieve every communication that passed through our server. We’ve had to do it a couple of times actually.

• by megaman22 on 6/6/18, 2:27 AM

  It's not yours, your password should be changed before you leave the building so you can't access it.

  Practically, anything you want personal access to needs to be in your name, outside of business uses. Forwarding stuff from business to personal is probably questionable, depending on your industry and what you do with it.

• by damm on 6/6/18, 2:17 AM

  I can speak from experience that the inbox is the property of the company. Worked at many company's who would commonly just disable the email account to login and forward all new email to a manager (or ceo/whatever).

  This is also true with any computer that they gave you.

  > I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak for the legality of this.

  But if you are talking about a company's email server that you have an account on. It's the private property of the company likely.