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I'm pretty sure you can't do it via the UI but if you use the API you can delegate access to any account in your organisation without confirmation. Once you've delegated access to that account you can then login as that user via the standard user switcher that appears if you have multiple accounts.

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My team has written an integration with Google's API[0] to explicitly pull back the full bodies of emails for all users across a whole organisation, to run some analysis on all emails.

Once our service account has been granted access, we can assume the role of any user and access anything we have permission for. So, you should assume your IT administrator can also access all your emails, since they're likely to be the person that grants permission to the service account.

[0]https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/m...

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