Is it against the law to access and use someone's email without consent?
340399
It's dishonest and morally wrong whether there are laws or not.
77477
Generally speaking you can not search a person by email address. Email addresses are stored in secured databases which are protected from public access.\nThere is always a chance that someone put the email address along with other contact information as some text in public open forums, blogs or discussion groups and most of the search engines can pick these up. Wrong thing to do:)
209679
It usually is legal, provided you allow them to unsubscribe if it's an email listserv. Be careful though, as unsolicited email is usually dumped first thing before even reading it. Better to target a certain proven constituency such as Union members, voters in your area of interest, or people who are aware of the issues you wish to address.
682522
well dear,  it is quite illegal to get a software that can retrieve the information about the owner of an email address from the mail server.\n  i have got one and i can tell you the information about you i got from your email address.\nbut it is not on the Internet so u write me a mail and i will reply you with the software as an attachment or i can out it up in my website for you go there and download it, as soon as you download i will remove it.\n\nplease remember its still illegal.
382803
It's very easy, as you would have noted from other answers on this platform. But, you can always search from within the relatively safe confines of your own email/gmail box and have strong passwords. That should be reasonably safe. If, however, you try unauthorized searches NOT permitted by law, NO  password, mailbox, computer tool or any other device will guarantee your privacy/security. NO OFFENSE INTENDED. ONLY TRYING TO GIVE YOU SOME HELPFUL GUIDELINES, AS YOUR OWN GUARDIAN WOULD, NO DOUBT, DO. \n\nAlso, Terms of Service (TOS) and Privacy Policy of major websites, are explicitly clear on these issues. We MUST read and understand them,  meticulously and scrupulously. An alert and ethical common sense is a very helpful god-gifted/acquired tool !
47242
You're email account cannot be used in any way to cost you money or purchase things.\n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/security.php
928441
How about you don't access it?  He may have a good reason for keeping it from you.  My wife and I both have personal email accounts that the other person does not have access.  I trust her to manage her own email and show me what she wants to and vice versa.  In fact, I use that email account to receive shipping confirmations for just about everything I've purchased for her online.  Wouldn't want her to see that, would I?\n\nEither way no one hear (in their right mind) would give you advice on how to illegally access anyone else's email.  If he doesn't want to show you or even admit that he has that email account, that's his business.  And his legal right to keep it private.
560513
Sure u can....Go to google and type in email address finder and you should have no problems from there.  Hopefully.
1149986
Honestly, just ask them. If you sneak around to get it, it may kill any affection the other person has for you. I wouldnt want someone emailing me if I didnt give them my address.
87134
You can't unless they have included their email address in their profile (like I have).
365373
you can reprt him to the police, you can forward the emails to the server and tell them about it, the easist thing is just block him so he can't send anymore. they would have to be pretty bad for them to do anything except advise him not to do it
184813
There are many ways to do this, but it is illegal, if you do not have permission.  It's basically the same thing as breaking into someone's PO Box or mailbox.
720201
you can't, you don't even know this persons last name so obviously you aren't friends. if someone wants you to have their email address they will give it to you, if they didn't its probably because they prefer not to hear from you or have no idea who you are. sounds like with the lack of info you have you can carry on your life and think nothing more about this and you won't be missing anything!
1057593
You can never know who is emailing you unless you really know this person very well. And even then you can never be fully shure, can you? Just think of serial killers and rapists. It happens many times that even close friends did not suspect him (or her) from crimes like that.\nIf you have very good reasons to suspect someone of crimes like that,  go to the police.\n\nBut also make shure you don't point fingers towards innocent people!!
237674
You can't as long as that person gives you his/her email address by him/herself; because email addesses are always very confidential.
539210
there is a term used in civil & criminal law, in common law jurisdiction, called volenti non fit injuria or that if any wrong is consented to by the person aggreived by it, he cannot claim any compensation or relief for it. on the face of it, your case seems to be one that's based on the same lines, but going in the opposite direction.\n\nmost institutions would logically have a clause inserted in their constituent instrument (school constitution, Act under which the college was established, etc.) or in the letter confirming your admission into the institution, that allowed them to take recourse to using your private data or information you did not intend to be used by officials for official purposes, such as your personal diary, your notepad, your private address book et. al.\n\nhowever, in the absence of such a clause, this type of behaviour is strictly illegal. if the information was in their custody, but only you were authorised to access it, such as your university email account, your password-protected document folder in a networked environment, then the official gathering acess to the information is guilty of breach of trust, civil and criminal trespass for trespassing into your private (virtual) space - your account, and possibly, for misuse of authority.\n\nas you mentioned there were other methods to contact you, at his disposal, using your private data seems to be intentional, i.e. gaining access to such data was the number one priority, and contacting you or your parent only a pretext to explain his action or prove it to be reasonable so as to excuse him of liability. the availability of other methods of establishing contact to him, is thus the operative fact.\n\nthese, possibly more or less, depending upon the entire set of facts involved and the law governing you and your institution, are the grounds on which he might be found liable, if he is unable to explain that his actions did not reflect, as you mentioned, a guilty mind.\n\nhowever, the last point, of the official being connected with a complaint filed against your organisation, is not clear, and I have thus not included it within my answer.
412877
it is best just to delete the message.  Do not respond as then they will know they have reached a valid email account.  It is their way of checking.\nAs to the legalities, since it is over the internet, not sure if there is anything you can do, unless the business they do is illegal in the eyes of the law.