Using Outlook for work and personal email account...

Question...

Say you have a company laptop and a company email addy that goes to Outlook. If you register for a personal email account and have that go to the Outlook account, can the company still access the email without physically having the laptop?

My husband has the laptop and I registered a personal email account for him to use for personal use since I think it's stupid for him to use his work one and take the chance that someone sends him an email that he shouldn't be getting at work (ie. racy jokes, whatever). I can't even send .jpg attachments to him since they don't go through his company firewall.

Anyway, if he has them go to Outlook, does it totally negate the whole purpose of this? Or am I being naive in my entire thought process?

The company obviously has their own server. His laptop is wireless and he can access the server via our wireless at home also...if any of that matters.

PS...the whole reason for the question is because I'm pretty sure he is too lazy to log onto an online email acct to access emails.

 

The mailserver is verizon and is POP. So, what you're saying is that they would have to physically have the computer to access the hard drive or the .pst file, right? I'm assuming company email goes through their server and they can access it without actually having the laptop. Is that right? This is actually not a huge deal...it's not like he gets much, if anything, that is worrisome. It's just a matter of do I really want to bother if the personal email is going to go through the same process as if I had left it alone.

 

k...thanks Mada.

Thinking I'll leave it up to him. If he wants to use it, he log onto it online.