None of the ideas presented for email privacy will apply:

1.) ANY time when the employer uses Exchange for email (which most with
more than a few employees do); or
2.) Between the time mail arrives at the server and the time the user
retrieves it, in the case of an SMTP/POP or IMAP server; or
3.) Ever, if the employer *wants* to read your incoming mail.  All that is
needed is to configure the mail server to copy all of your mail to another
email box as it arrives.

If your employer uses Exchange, the mail admin can do pretty much anything
he or she wants, without your knowledge, and there's no way for you to
detect it.  Ditto for any Unix/Linux/Solaris system using SMTP/POP/IMAP.
I don't know about Lotus Bloats, but I suspect it's the same.

Face it -- it's the employer's server, and you most likely signed (or at
least were advised of) a pretty Draconian email policy when you went to
work there.  Your choices are to use a Web email service (better be a
secure one, if they have a proxy server at work!), or don't use the system
at work for personal email at all.  Of course, if you can telnet out from
work you can telnet to an external host and use Pine or elm or whatever to
read your non-work email.

Wish I had better news for you.  By the way, as a former employer, former
ISP, former sys admin (two previous lives), current sys admin (at home)
and current non-mail-admin employee (at work), I pretty much know the ins
and outs...

Dale

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Andrew Hooper wrote:

8< snip...
> Removable devices are really good for this, but when you dont have one in
8< snip...
> When you arrive, unzip or unarchive the data, when you leave zip it up.

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