Loading ...In Part 1 we looked at using email forwarding to read a colleague’s email while they are away on vacation.
In part 2 we are going to look at the other two methods-webmail and configuring an email client.
Webmail is my preferred method as it doesn’t require any setup. All it requires is that you know the account name/password of you colleagues account and that the account is accessible via webmail (most are today).
Of course there are security issues as you have full access to the other person’s email account.
The final method is to configure an email client to access the other email account. All email clients can access multiple email accounts/mailboxes and so it is possible to configure your client e.g. outlook express to access your colleagues email while they are on vacation.
This is trickier and if incorrectly setup then you will finish up with the only copy of the emails and when your colleague returns from holiday all the emails that they received in that time have been deleted and are on your computer.
The security issues are the same as webmail as again you have full access to the colleague’s email account
You can find out more about the above techniques in: