Len, My boss gave me an article from "e-doc" magazine about a legal case where the defendant faced the possibility of having to recover the e-mail from fifteen employees from more than 800 backup tapes. The defendant estimated that the cost of resorting the tapes for search purposes at 1.1 to 1.7 million. OUCH...
My boss said "What are we doing about this?" To myself I said "Nothing". I told my boss I would look into it. <grin> Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Email Records Management >I have been reading a lot about Email management and was wondering what >people are using to cope with this problem. I don't read those books, so I don't have the problem. > I am interested in policies and >technologies that address the legal and technical challenge of e-mail >retention and recovery. In Scott Barman's book "Writing Information >Security Policies" there is an example of an e-mail policy that retains all >e-mail for two years. who pays for that? >Does anyone do this right now? There were noises in the EU about requiring ISP's et al to archive all mail, connection records, at their own unsubsidized expense, but I lost track of where that went. I think it was at least talked about in UK. >If yes, how do you retrieve all the e-mail from one person in a six month >period? You don't retrieve it after delivered (did that book say to do that?), you bcc all the original mail traffic and then have big, weekly BBQ/beer party for all friends so they can see who can find the most intimate/incriminating/perverse mail for the past week. Bonus points for credit card number and bank account passwords. Geeks can have fun, too. >I know Imail has the ability to copy all incoming and outgoing e-mail to one >account. Are there any add-on products that will index and archive all of >that e-mail? Why bother ($time + $money) to index it? It would be already expensive enough to capture/store the raw volume. If the "alleged" police types want it, they should be smart enough to index it themselves. Len To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
