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Email offboarding covers the steps IT takes to close or redirect a departing employee's mailbox without losing business mail or creating security gaps. The tagged discussion looks at how Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace handle continuity after someone leaves, including forwarding and shared mailboxes that keep customers from hitting a dead end. It also flags a risk that is easy to miss: a former worker may have used that company address as a recovery route for personal services, so reset emails can still land in a mailbox someone else now controls. The practical takeaway is to review forwarding, aliases, and recovery settings as part of offboarding.
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    Microsoft 365 Forwarding Can Receive Ex-Staff Reset Emails

    Google Workspace administrators are explicitly told they can assign a departed employee’s old address as an alias for a current user, meaning mail sent to that address will continue arriving in somebody else’s inbox. Microsoft 365 offers equivalent continuity through forwarding or shared...