One thing that I don’t understand....
In my experience when you join an organization nowadays the IT people automatically create stuff for you - accounts and access rights - and an email account. Now you may not use that account but it is still there. I would think that the only way that there wouldn’t be one is if the IT folks were instructed NOT to create the mailbox. And I would think that someplace there would be a record of that conversation.
I believe you’er half right.
“the only way that there wouldn’t be one is if the IT folks were instructed NOT to create the mailbox.”
YEP
“someplace there would be a record of that conversation”
Nope!