Re: Legal issues
A relative of mine died some five years ago, their house was sold, and all of their accounts were cancelled. I recently accidentally forwarded an email to one of their old email addresses (they were still on the mailing list for an association we used to subscribe to), and duly received back a delivery acknowledgement. Out of curiosity, I logged into their account, I knew their password as I had set the account up for them, and they had never changed it. I was somewhat surprised to find that the account was still active, and contained 285 unread emails.