Offboarding members

Remove someone from your organisation and decide what happens to their mailbox, sessions and seat.

Use the offboarding wizard when someone leaves. Open Org Panel > Team members, choose the member, then Offboard. It needs the User admin role or higher.

Choose what happens to the mailbox#

OptionResult
ArchiveThe mailbox is kept but disabled in the app for the number of days you choose, then deleted
TransferThe mailbox becomes a shared inbox for the member you pick
DeleteThe account, its mail and its aliases are removed

Delete is refused for a member covered by a legal hold. An archived mailbox under a hold is kept until the hold is released.

What always happens#

  • The member is signed out everywhere and their app passwords are removed.
  • Their seat is freed.
  • The action is recorded in the audit log, without any message content.

What does not happen#

SipherMail does not forward new mail to another address after offboarding. If you need that, move the address to a shared mailbox first.

Last updated 1 November 2026