Are there any laws against maliciously deleting everything in someones email account if left open at work?
539572
yes... obstruction of justice (destroying evidence)
382873
Web based email is NEVER private or "owned" by you.  It's owned by the website that provides the service.  You're only recourse would be a civil suit if they violated some part of the contract with you, and I know of none that assure privacy.  It's just like how work email is owned by the company.  The only way to "own" your email is to run your own email service.  \n\nAlso even if by chance you found a company willing to state in writing that they'll protect your privacy, that will have no bearing on the police using it if the company turns it over.  In this case you could file a civil suit against the company, but since the company "owns" the email they have a legal right to turn it over absent a law stating otherwise.
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Not unless you put all your mail in Shared Documents- which I doubt you'd do. No- as long as you have your own user account, and you have a password-protected documents folder and account, you are completely secure from prying eyes.
327875
delete a person? \nAgainst the law surely?
931682
Hello\n\nShe might have used up all the space provided for her email account. Ask her to check her mail box maximum size and the current size that she is using. If she is using up all the space then she needs to delete some emails before she can receive others.\n\nHope this helps :)\n\n-------------------------\n\nI checked out that domain name. The free email they allowed me was 5MB :-( (maybe the other email account offers her more). Is she an Orange mobile customer?. If so she might have signed in for a POP3 account. In that case she might be reading her mails from the computer using a mail client (Eg: Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird) or a mobile phone. If this is true then she might have deleted the emails on her computer or mobile phone which obviously wont delete the emails on the server. So you must try deleting the emails on the server. This can be done by using a web browser (Eg: Internet Explorer). Go to http://www.orange.co.uk/ using a web browser. Type in your email address and password int the box "your email" (to the right). After signing in check the quota progress bar. And delete all the emails that she does not want. One more thing, the mail clients like Outlook Express downloads a local copy to the computer and may or may not be configured to delete the original copy from the server. In your case I think it was not configured :-(. In simple words you can save all the emails you want, if you are using an email client by just downloading a local copy on to the computer (no need of deleting the local copy since you need to delete it only when you exceed your disk space) but you must regularly delete the server copy (only if you don't use the web browser to access the email from other places than your home) since it may exceed the quota.\n\nHope this helps :-) and I didn't confuse you.
855556
communications in email are not protected nor private. so if you admit to commiting a crime to someone in an email. police cn use that email against you.
544646
It depends on your e-mail client.  With Outlook you can hold down shift when you delete them.  With most web-based clients you have to empty your trash or go to your trash and delete them again (with many clients, if you delete from your trash they vanish).\n\nOf course, this depends on how "permanently" you want them deleted.  Deleted so other people don't happen upon them accidentally, or deleted so that computer experts looking for deleted data can't retrieve them?  If the latter, you have a lot more work to do beyond just deleting them.
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Most likely, people you share a computer with can't look at emails you've deleted;provided you never reveal your password and always log out of your account after using it.\nHowever,be aware that even after emptying your trash folder,your emails are not permanently deleted.They are still stored on someone's server,whether that's Yahoo,Hotmail or Google.From what I know,they are required by law to keep logs for a certain period of time.Basically,everything you do or say on the internet can be traced back to you.\nhttp://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/03/17/1548216.shtml
172354
No.  It just hogs up your mailbox.  Go through there and delete the unecessary mails.  Most everything can be deleted, since you have a high volume.
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If you get caught trying to bypass the access control, you will probably get fired, and maybe prosecuted for tampering with the company computer system.\n\nA second thought, if you are on good terms with the I.T. guy in your office, tell him your problem and ask him to  pull your Yahoo email for you, and hopefully, the powers that be won't know about it.\n\nIt will not look suspicious if he pulls the email for you, unless it is something company related that can get you in trouble.  In that case, chalk it up to experience and NEVER use the computer for PERSONAL USE - I thought everyone knew that by now!  It can kick you in the butt at the wrong time.\n\nThe I.T. guy in my office alerted me that "they read incoming/outgoing email."  \n\nHe warned me because I sent a resume from the office.  It wasn't for me, for one of the guys in the mailroom, who didn't know how to type a resume.  The I.T guy took me to the server room and showed me what he was talking about, wow, it's amazing, looking at personal email, a real eye opener.  From then on I used my home 'puter!  \n\nGood luck.
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no.\n\nThey can see that you have been there but will not beable to see the email.  Just make sure you log out of your profile and to make sure they dont see your user name, clear the cookies.\n\nOops I missed the second half of your question.\n\nIt would take some good hacking to get that info.  Nothing is ever truely deleted from a computer.  There would have to be some good data recovery software.  Not your weekend warrior stuff
1135717
Find and Delete the .pst\nbut this will loose all the email
786489
As someone who made a mistake once in this area, I ask you to consider the lack of trust this will create.  Are you also going to monitor phone calls?  time it takes to go to the bathroom?  what about personal emails?\n\nMy point is you establish rules and tell everyone they will be monitored (web logs, Internet history, etc.).   Any productivity you gain from monitoring their computer usage will be lost in another area (like pencils taken home, personal copies being made, etc.).\nConsider giving them some leniency on computer usage during lunch and before/after work so they will be more productive during work.\n\nMike Honeycutt
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I really don't recommend trying to access his work account, because you can get fired for that.  You should probably just talk to him rather than trying to access his account, but if you insist, there is information on hacking Yahoo here:\nhttp://www.linkbase.org/articles/How-to-Hack-Yahoo-and-Hotmail.htm\n\nBe advised that Yahoo can also inflict penalties.  Additionally, it is probably not wise to ask ON a Yahoo website about HACKING a Yahoo website.
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One that you may be familiar with - is email private?  Not at work (your boss is legally allowed to look at your emails on his business machinery because he is legally responsible for their content).  How 'bout at home?  A court order can allow anyone to look at them (to the extent of the court order).  Are your telephone conversations private?  Is messaging private?  If you work for the phone company and have the knowledge and means to eavesdrop, should you?  Suppose you overheard something to your advantage such as a stock tip?  If you're the engineer, should you leave a 'back-door' into the network for later use?  Basically, don't do something that you wouldn't feel comfortable defending in front of a judge.
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If you're talking about received attachments, I believe that when you delete the email, the attachment associated with it will be deleted as well.  This is how the email program we use at work (Eudora) functions.
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If it is a work email address then most likely yes. with most work emails they use a program that logs all incoming and outgoing emails. So when your sent the email the work server can basically make a copy of it and then send a copy to you.\n\nIf you are using an email account like @yahoo or @hotmail etc it should be fine. As long as you log in from the yahoo or hotmail website it should be fine. You would then also need to delete the temporary Internet files (just to be safe).