Monitoring Users Email?

[ITR]

One of our clients wants to be able to monitor some of his employees email. I told him he could just get the users passwords, and logon as that user, and read it that way, but he has about 10 employees he wants to see the emails for in real time.

Is this possible?

 

[Davetoo]

Does he want to see incoming and outgoing? or just incoming? If he wants to see incoming, just set each user account to forward a copy to him (using ADUC).

 

[ITR]

I think he wants to see both, but thats a good idea.



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[rrsub]

You could give him rights to the mailboxes under Exchange Manager and then add the users mailboxes to his profile.

 

[rrsub]

You could give him rights to the mailboxes under Exchange Manager and then add the users mailboxes to his profile.

 

[nhidalgo]

You could turn on message journaling. Then set rules on the journal acount to forward any message sent or received by the 10 user accounts to your client.

Nick

 

[dazz828]

where do i turn on message journaling or find more info on this?

 

[georgesz]

see MS article

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;

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georgesz

 

[dazz828]

Nice, thanks!

 

[Marcs41]

As an admin can do monito everything, although in most countries it is considered as a breach of privacy and thus against the law!

Jounaling is not the same thing.

So, you better have a very good reason to do that, and if it is a request from management, protect yourself by pointing that out to them and have them request it in written or at least an email.

Here is how:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;262054

This will deliver a copy of EVERY email going through the server, so it can be a lot!

Marc
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[dazz828]

Marc,

Yes I fully understand that, and have brought that to their attention. I have an email stating it. We also use GFI MailSecurity and MailEssentials. MailEssentials has a monitoring option.. we tested it out and it works only when someone external sends an email to the person internally. For some reason it doesn't work when they send a reply back or send emails internally. It's very easy to use so that would have been perfect. I'll have to contact them to see why it's not working right.

But thanks again for the link. I'm new to this whole Journaling thing...

Dazz828

 

[Tobez]

depending on the size of your org, just let him have the admin mailbox rediected to him, so any email at all going to and from the store will pop on his screen, I know some he wont want to see, but if he is the director then he has the right to do so, as long as its in the employment handbook for business use only, and also that if he acts upon an email and the user knows this, he can be sued for this, as it can be a breech of privacy law,

i think its in the mailstore settings of where emails should be sent, if u have a 1000 user system, do 1 of the other choices.