Ron said:
I work with someone who believes that her Supervisor has somehow set up Outlook, so that he can covertly receive a copy of all e-mails that she is receiving. She sits near his cubicle, and every time that the chime goes off when she receives an e-mail, she can hear the chime go off on his PC as well. For obvious reasons, we do not want to ask the Manager or System Administrator about this. Is such a thing possible?
Yes, this is surely possible to do. You could run a test. You send 5
messages to your friend at exactly 30 sec intervals. If the chimes goes
off on the supervisor's desk 5 times in sync with your friend receiving
these mails you have some evidence. Otherwise, it might just be a red
herring.
It could have been by setting up rules on your friend's Outlook.
Someone can sit down at this computer when the "owner" is away and do
this. That's why screen saver passwords are useful. Check in Outlook's
rules.
It could have been done by the mail administrator also. That requires a
conspiracy which perhaps is less likely.
I guess if from the test I had absolute proof this was happening, I
would have to make a decision about approaching the supervisor directly,
or go to the highest level boss available to me. That's a dilemma.
