Tony, For the districts that host email through the AEA we have started to archive all messages through SmarterMail. Also Dan Davis is using the built-in Journaling feature in exchange. Dan will be presenting at the Info-Tech meeting how to do this with exchange.
There are a LOT of companies looking to cash in on the email archiving rush right now. We have had a demo on the Freedom9 appliance that looks really nice, but it is difficult for me to justify the $5000 price tag when it can be done simply at the mail server. I would also recommend that before anyone decides to start archiving email that they have policies and procedures in place. How long are you going to keep the email messages (My recommendation is not less than 2 years) who can view the archived email messages and under what circumstances. Our hosted policy will be emails will only be released by written request of the districts legal counsel. Have a "Stop Order" policy where if any legal action comes up the districts does not destroy ANY data or paper until the legal action has been resolved. Who will retrieve and filter the requested data, Some email may contain non-related confidential data that will have to be filtered out of requests. As per the archiving session we had last year I would recommend that if you archive your district should have a "Team" including district administrator and legal counsel. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Richardson,Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:42:31 -0500 >Hello All, > > > >Is anyone out there archiving their email? If so what appliance do you >use to archive it? Has anyone heard of ArcMail? > > > >Thanks, > >Tony Richardson > >Technology Coordinator > >Humboldt Community School District > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
