Man, leave the thread for a few days and come back and all I see is. Help me hack this, help me crack that. Whats with you people.

dougal, you have been told time and time again what to do. AO is not for people like your self to come and ask how to save your butt when you screw up. If you lose your job over this, either by finding someone to actually tell you how easy it is to gain access to NT and even the mail messages you want. Or for simply not doing what you where suppose to. I hope your next job you realise that your responsibility is nothing but that.. YOURS.

You say this guy is on vacation, everyone owns a cell phone. If this is a company email address someone else (admin, ISP) has the info to get in, you just need PERMISSION.

These people have been very nice so far. (I could have sworn this post was closed)
And you refuse to take their advice. And from the lack of posts from you I would say you are only comming back to skim the thread and see if anyone has posted the answer you want.

I have worked IT for 8 years now and if any of my people ever tried to do what you are. They would be fired.

Take the advice givin by soo many of the others. Either get permission, call the person who owns the account, or contact the people sending the emails and ask it to be resent to your account.

On another note. If you would have simply read through a few posts (one from last week I see) you would see you can defeat the login password very easily.

As far as the email goes, thats someone personal information and if you don't know how to get in you don't need in.

Sorry to be so blunt, you got all the rant for everyone of these people I have seen post this type of garbage today. What heppened to the AO that was about securing sites, boxes, or figuring out network issues.