Q: What is e-mail archiving?

• Author: Tuip, Martin
• Position: HAVE A BURNING RIM QUESTION? ASK THE EXPERT! E-Mail Archiving - Brief article

E-mail archiving uses an application that runs with an e-mail server, such as Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise, or Microsoft Exchange, to capture and preserve e-mail messages. In addition, it can index the information, which allows users of the system to get access to some or all of their content.

E-mail archiving systems have been around for more than a decade and started out primarily to manage mailboxes for storage management, but they have since expanded with functionality to protect mission-critical data and to retain data for compliance and legal requirements.

E-mail archiving solutions can be deployed on an organization's own servers that it maintains...