Email Archiving - Overview

Overview

Email Archiving is the process of capturing, preserving, and making easily searchable all email traffic to and from a given individual, organization, or service. Email archiving solutions capture email content either directly from the email application itself or during transport. For organizations that must meet regulations the latter is most often utilized, as the message is captured by the archive before the end-user can tamper or delete it. The messages are typically then stored on magnetic disk storage and indexed to simplify future searches.

In addition to email and attachments, some email archiving applications can also archive additional aspects of a mailbox including public folders, .pst files, calendars, contacts, notes, and associated metadata and context.