Personal Email on Previous Employer Email Account

Murphybear

jonnygee2 wrote: »

Depends, in many places it's standard policy to put out of offices on deactivated accounts, it could just have been a step that was forgotten. But again, you are working off policies you have no idea about. The OP could just ask someone who actually works there, instead of rely on complete guesses about what this universities IT policy looks like. If the IT person says a request needs to go in, they can just ask a collegue.

Every university will have it's own policy on this. I worked for a University in the Maths & Computing Dept. I was academic related but the rules were the same. All email accounts were deleted when someone left. As our grades had to gave 4 months notice this was never a problem.

unforeseen

Maybe op misunderstood things. Maybe he was supposed to put his own OOO on and maybe a redirect rather than expecting somebody to do it for him.

Everyone that I have left a job I've always put an OOO on a few days beforehand to warn people.

As for emails in the mail account op should have saved them off himself.

TELLIT01

unforeseen wrote: »

Maybe op misunderstood things. Maybe he was supposed to put his own OOO on and maybe a redirect rather than expecting somebody to do it for him.

Everyone that I have left a job I've always put an OOO on a few days beforehand to warn people.

As for emails in the mail account op should have saved them off himself.

Under normal circumstances all the above would be the norm, however it seems the OP left a rather shorter notice than normal so possibly didn't have the opportunity to do any of that.