administrators are not able to look into private chats

[finius]

In corporate environments it is sometimes necessary on legal grounds to check an employees communication. Usually the management asks the IT therefor to deliver ones communication. Currently an administrator is neither able to view the existing private chats from any user nor is there an export function to extract all users content from the database

[mattermod]

Thanks @finius, appreciate your feedback,

To keep feature idea discussions in one place, could we have your help:

1. Contributing this in the feature idea forum so it can be discussed, upvoted and considered for a ticket accepting pull requests?

   Please include a link back to this GitHub Issue. If you're interested in implementing, please say so and we'll prioritize the review.

2. Posting a link back from the feature idea forum to this thread?

[finius]

here it is: https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/suggestions/12533646-make-administrators-able-to-look-into-private-chat