Human resources
An employee has left, a dispute begins, and IT hands over their mailbox as a .pst of several gigabytes. You need the exchanges with one customer over a few months, without reading their personal messages.
What changes
The mailbox stays on your computer
The PST is read by your browser, in chunks. It goes to no provider, and there is no processing agreement to sign to look at it.
Search without reading everything
Search in subjects, senders and bodies, filters by period, sender, folder and attachments. On a generated 6 GB PST, search answers in 0.6 seconds.
Personal messages set aside
Messages marked personal or private, and those in folders named "Personal" or "Private", are set aside by default. Including them is an explicit choice, which the screen points out.
Produce what is useful
The messages kept become PDFs with their record, or go into a file of numbered exhibits with its list.
The framework
In France, messages an employee has marked as personal are covered by the secrecy of correspondence, even in a mailbox provided by the employer; those not marked as such are in principle presumed to be work-related. That is the reason for setting them aside by default: Klarinbox cannot stop anyone from reading a message, but it need not make it easy.
This reminder is not legal advice. The conditions under which an employer may look into a mailbox and produce messages depend on the circumstances and on the country: check them with your legal counsel or lawyer first.
The tools
- Open a PST file: folders, search, filters, personal messages set aside by default. An .ost is read the same way: find it.
- Convert an email to PDF: the message with its record, naming the mailbox, its fingerprint and the original folder.
- Produce exhibits and their list: the messages kept, numbered, with the list.
What it does not do
- Catch every personal message for sure: the rule reads markings, folders and subjects, not what the messages mean; what it lets through is for you to set aside.
- Open a password-protected PST, or recover deleted messages.
- Decide what may be produced: that decision stays yours.