Re: E-mail interception (NJC)

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Lori, my understanding is that any email you download onto the computer to read (using an email client like Eudora, Outlook Express etc) can be read by the systems dept/employer if the computer is networked, and the information remains on the hard drive even if you think you've deleted it. But if you go online to read your mail as webmail (Yahoo, Hotmail etc), then those emails can't be read by other people even if the computer is networked, although as Kakki says, the fact that you accessed the account would be recorded. But this would not reveal your account name or password: just the fact that you went to, say, www.hotmail.com at such-and-such a date and time.

Sarah

Lori asked:

 Which of you tech-savvy types knows whether email that is simply sent
 or received via an employer-owned computer (but not via an employer-
 provided account), particularly a networked computer, can be
 monitored/read?