Employer Reviewing Employee Emails

[Jeff]

Is there a way for an employer to read an employee's emails. This would be
for security reasons only.

[Aligator]

I don't know where you live, but in my country the employer goes straight to
prison if he gets caught doing that....
Check with your lawyer first if you are legally entitled to do that ;)

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That depends on the mail server and client configuration and, as Aligator indicated, your established employeed policies and legal procedures.

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"Jeff" <Je...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:53539517-1C03-44CD...@microsoft.com...

[Gordon]

"Aligator" <Alig...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I don't know where you live, but in my country the employer goes straight
>to
> prison if he gets caught doing that....

Hmmm. In MOST countries anything done on the Office equipment and software
belongs to the Company....INCLUDING private emails....

[F.H. Muffman]

I concur, however, one should never take previous legal precedents into
consideration without getting an ok from a lawyer. I just know that when I
was admining, our legal/hr dep't ok'd the action of opening employees
mailboxes.

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f.h.

[Marvin P. Winterbottom]

No company has ever been convicted of reading an employees email. The
computer, the server, the software, the network, the email, it ALL belongs to
the company.
And to answer your question, yes, there is a way for an employer to read an
employees email, and if the company has any type of IT department, it is a
simple task.

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

And the details depends on the mail server, which is key information that Jeff did not provide.

Employee privacy rights are not the same in every country.

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http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Marvin P. Winterbottom" <MarvinPWi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D232FB0E-2CD0-4DD8...@microsoft.com...

> No company has ever been convicted of reading an employees email. The
> computer, the server, the software, the network, the email, it ALL belongs to
> the company.
> And to answer your question, yes, there is a way for an employer to read an
> employees email, and if the company has any type of IT department, it is a
> simple task.
>
> "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> That depends on the mail server and client configuration and, as Aligator indicated, your established employeed policies and legal procedures.
>>

[Gary VanderMolen]

"Marvin P. Winterbottom" <MarvinPWi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D232FB0E-2CD0-4DD8...@microsoft.com...

> No company has ever been convicted of reading an employees email. The
> computer, the server, the software, the network, the email, it ALL belongs to
> the company.

That in itself means nothing. After all, the restroom and its fixtures belong to
the employer also, but that doesn't mean the employer can snoop on the
employee while he/she is using the restroom.

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Gary VanderMolen

[F.H. Muffman]

"Gary VanderMolen" <ga...@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
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>> No company has ever been convicted of reading an employees email. The
>> computer, the server, the software, the network, the email, it ALL
>> belongs to
>> the company.
>
> That in itself means nothing. After all, the restroom and its fixtures
> belong to
> the employer also, but that doesn't mean the employer can snoop on the
> employee while he/she is using the restroom.
>

Very very apples and oranges. There is an expected level of privacy when
one uses the bathroom, that is not, and should not, be present when one uses
company resources.

Not to mention, anything you leave in the rest room is completely free for
the company to look at.

For instance, if they wanted to test your urine for drugs, I don't think
they'd lose a court case if they sampled your urine as it passed through the
plumbing.

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f.h.

[Gary VanderMolen]

"F.H. Muffman" <f.h.m...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23lECFzC...@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> "Gary VanderMolen" <ga...@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message news:u1129vCn...@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> No company has ever been convicted of reading an employees email. The
>>> computer, the server, the software, the network, the email, it ALL belongs to
>>> the company.
>>
>> That in itself means nothing. After all, the restroom and its fixtures belong to
>> the employer also, but that doesn't mean the employer can snoop on the
>> employee while he/she is using the restroom.
>>
>
> Very very apples and oranges. There is an expected level of privacy when one uses the bathroom, that is not, and should not, be
> present when one uses company resources.

Unless the employee is duly informed that email will be monitored, the
company is on thin legal ground to do so on the sly.

> Not to mention, anything you leave in the rest room is completely free for the company to look at.
>
> For instance, if they wanted to test your urine for drugs, I don't think they'd lose a court case if they sampled your urine as
> it passed through the plumbing.

I disagree. I'm sure that is not legal without the employee's informed
knowledge that such surveillance is to be expected as a condition of
employment.
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Gary VanderMolen