There is NO WAY in hell that a laptop she "shares" with her ex-husband would contain 650,000 emails unless she knew what she was doing.
1) If access to the email was through a web base portal, then zero email would be "stored" on the laptop.
2) If access to the email was through POP3 servers, then email would be downloaded and "stored" on the laptop with copies on the POP server as well (unless the server is instructed to delete the emails from the server once downloaded). This is possible, but it creates a mess from an archiving standpoint and is not good practice. Especially if you use mobile devices.
3) If access to the email was through an Exchange server (which it probably was), and through an Outlook install, then email would be "stored" on a local .pst/.ost file that the Exchange server would update everytime Outlook connects to it. If that is how she was accessing those emails then there is zero way this was an accident and that she didn't know what she was doing.
650,000 emails is a massive amount of emails, over a ten year period, it's over 170 per day sent or received (which given her job could be possible), but it's unlikely that this laptop was just used to check email once in a blue moon. If she only used the laptop once in 2016, Outlook would have to sync Gigabytes of data through the exchange server, it would have taken a massive amount of time.
No, this laptop was used regularly, and IMHO, was used to keep an off site backup of all her email. A backup only she would know about.
It would surprise me to see her charged with something when all is said and done.
1) If access to the email was through a web base portal, then zero email would be "stored" on the laptop.
2) If access to the email was through POP3 servers, then email would be downloaded and "stored" on the laptop with copies on the POP server as well (unless the server is instructed to delete the emails from the server once downloaded). This is possible, but it creates a mess from an archiving standpoint and is not good practice. Especially if you use mobile devices.
3) If access to the email was through an Exchange server (which it probably was), and through an Outlook install, then email would be "stored" on a local .pst/.ost file that the Exchange server would update everytime Outlook connects to it. If that is how she was accessing those emails then there is zero way this was an accident and that she didn't know what she was doing.
650,000 emails is a massive amount of emails, over a ten year period, it's over 170 per day sent or received (which given her job could be possible), but it's unlikely that this laptop was just used to check email once in a blue moon. If she only used the laptop once in 2016, Outlook would have to sync Gigabytes of data through the exchange server, it would have taken a massive amount of time.
No, this laptop was used regularly, and IMHO, was used to keep an off site backup of all her email. A backup only she would know about.
It would surprise me to see her charged with something when all is said and done.