Grumpy Old Geeks Topics Stored email privacy Topic Stored email privacy 2 mentions in 1 episode The speakers discuss an older legal assumption that email left on a server for six months was abandoned. Mentions 196: Nordstradamus Feb 13, 2017 43:59 If you left an email on a server for six months without downloading it, that you'd abandoned it. 44:42 Back in the day when they were doing that type of legislation, we did have to go download all our email.