Usermailbox in Office 365 with read only permissions

MVP

Hi Folks ,

  I have a customer requirement where users should have read only access on their own mailbox . They should only be able to see the incoming emails but they shouldn't be able to delete it ,reply to it ,  forward it or anything else apart from just reading the email which comes to their inbox . How can this be achieved ? I tried the PowerShell commands but I couldn't find the right one as most of them where talking about setting permissions on another user's mailbox or permissions on a shared mailbox but none of them were related to altering the  existing permissions on the user's own mailbox . Could you folks please check and help me with some steps to achieve this ? Thanks in advance . 

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There's no way to do this, the user "owns" all the data within his mailbox and can do with it as he pleases. If you need this in order to meet compliance restrictions, look into litigation hold/in-place hold or retention policies in the SCC.