So my supervisor monitors my e-mails at work and reads all of them and apparently the IT guy goes through it also. I have a lot of missing e-mails that I was keeping for information purposes but they are gone. I store them in my deleted items folder which I have done for years with no problem. Now or should I say over the past 2-3 months those e-mails get deleted quit often and I can’t get them back and if I store them in folders in my e-mail I get notifications of my mail box being over it’s capacity. I did some research on how legal it is for them to monitor it and from what I read it being a work e-mail it’s 100% legal. My wife sent me an e-mail the other day with pictures of my son and he tells me from his office across the hall “ Man he is getting big huh”. I said “what are you talking about?” and he told me the e-mail your wife just sent to you that I didn’t even know I had gotten yet. That really pissed me off that he is reading my e-mails from my wife regardless of us putting “private” as the subject. All other e-mail access is blocked so other than calling my wife or friends he reads all my business. Does anyone know a way I can block them from reading some of my e-mails? I don’t care about work related e-mails but some times my wife and I have personal discussions that I don’t want him to read.
Work e-mail rant....
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Use text messages instead. On your first question, well, they're in deleted items so they should get automaticly deleted every so often...
best I can say is use texts and if you have a smart phone, read your emails through there..
it may be legal, but it does sound immoral that he's reading AND commenting your emails..
it may be legal, but it does sound immoral that he's reading AND commenting your emails..
We use Microsoft Outlook for e-mail and the "deleted items" folder has to be manually deleted. After they are deleted you can go to “recover deleted items” in tools and that used to not get deleted unless I would do it my self. I guess they changed it to delete automatically once a week.
I used to text but I only have a work issued cell phone that our plan does not have text on it. I don’t see a point to buying another phone just for that but I have been thinking about it. I’m the only one that is being monitored here and just get really pissed about this whole baby sitter bit from time to time.
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I agree 100% RazoE
I used to text but I only have a work issued cell phone that our plan does not have text on it. I don’t see a point to buying another phone just for that but I have been thinking about it. I’m the only one that is being monitored here and just get really pissed about this whole baby sitter bit from time to time.
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I agree 100% RazoE
No way to block from reading them if he has access higher than your privileges. I agree, use text or email from your phone and forget using the work computer. It wouldn't be worth fighting them for reading a personal email, because it is being used on a work computer during work hours which could get you in trouble. Sort of a lose-lose situation on that one.
Some friends and I even discussed making some bogus e-mail address and send my self gay porn and nasty e-mails for him to read. Figured it would be funny to watch him open those with me knowing what they are of. But never did it.
Email passes thru several servers before it ends up to your computer, there's no way to stop him from reading it unless he's reading it ON your computer or unless you want your wife/friends to encode the email before they send, then you decode it after. As for saving them.. why not save them to a folder on your desktop or something similar? Flashdrive?
Mike
Mike
I will try to make a save fold on my drive tomorrow. Not sure how to encode and decode e-mails for privacy.
89nasupra;1627798 said:
LOL, Seriously...USE GMAIL! I'm the head IT that runs a midsize corporation, and I can read (encoded or not) and see everything on your harddrive.
Just use Gmail, its the best thing.
i can't all other forms of e-mail use is blocked.
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http://www.topsecretemail.com/index.html
i also just found this. i'll see how it goes with that.
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http://www.topsecretemail.com/index.html
i also just found this. i'll see how it goes with that.
blocked gmail yes. i had to ask them to unblock google images so i could search for material that i didn't know what the customer was asking for. it's a friggin day care ewhere i work.
SupraMario;1627805 said:
So, you're head of IT and you've never heard of security certificates? I can personally guarantee that if I encoded some emails you wouldn't be able to read them without my permission/certificate.
Mike
SupraMario;1627877 said:
So you're implying the IT guy that monitors his emails at work is a closet hacker? 128bit encryption doesn't stand a chance against Mr.$15/hr IT guy!
I know better than most that nothing is 100% secure, but if someone is willing to spend dozens of hours cracking an email the OP's wife sent him- they deserve to see the email. I doubt the very few people who can break thru that kind of encryption would really care about any emails Mr.89NaSupra is exchanging at work.
No offense, but keep thinking security is hopeless.
Mike
the link i posted, if you don't know the password to veiw the encoding then if he really has the time to crack it more power to him. the one i'm trying to stop is my supervisor. if my it guys feels the urge to read my encoded e-mails i know he won't tell me anything about reading them.
whitemike;1627903 said:
No you're right, but here is the thing, if he has access to his email, he is going to have full blown access to his computer, it isn't hard to see what someone types. It would also be easier for him to just use a completely different email service all together.
If your trying to keep legitimate documents in your deleted box, just save them to your hard drive. If your trying to save stuff that you dont want your bosses to see, should you really be keeping & looking those on a work computer?
Whats wrong with keeping your private email and checking it when your not being paid to be doing something else?
Whats wrong with keeping your private email and checking it when your not being paid to be doing something else?
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