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by khall3

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We have an employee who we would like to monitor. What we need is a way to monitor email that he sends out. We are using Outlook Express 5.5 and Windows 98. I know you could set up rules to automatically forward email, however, all he would have to do is look at his sent items folder and notice what was going on. So I need a way to have his sent items sent to me without him knowing of it.

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by syscokid

Are you on a network? Can you map a drive to his computer? Do you have OE 5.5 too?

If so, map a drive to his computer and copy his sent.dbx file over to yours. Then in OE, do File, Import and follow the wizard. Choose to import mail from an OE store directory, then point to the location you've saved it.

by khall3

well that will only capture the emails that he has sent out alreay but what about the ones he sends after I copy the sent.dbx.

by joseph1

Why not just keep copying the dbx every day, or better map to his hard drive and setup an identity in your outlook express to use this path as the message store. Just make sure that his OE is off when you do this.
If you want detailed instructions on how to do this just email me.
By the way there are privacy issues that you should clear with your company lawyer before you do this. It has been messy in the past.

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