The lost email thing is not that uncommon or complicated. Care to learn?

Question

This is obviously not best practice but it is common enough and not anything sinister:

1) System administrator makes a decision early on to limit mailbox size to reduce the management and hardware costs on the system. Users are encouraged to keep their server mailboxes small. If they exceed their allocation they cannot send mail until they archive or delete enough messages so that they are under their limit.

2) Users bump up against the limit. They try to get more space. If the sysadmin sticks to the policy, they are encouraged to archive their emails off the server mailbox to a personal store file on their hard drive. Users archive inbox and sent mail messages to the PST file when their mailboxes are full.

3) Workstation hard drives are usually not backed up in most enterprises. When they crash the contents of the PST file can be lost.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979795(v=exchg.141).aspx

Answer 1

If they use GroupWise, then yeah they most definitely lost them lol

When I was at College they kept telling use to save the Emails on a thumb drive because GroupWise will randomly lose emails....in my case over 100 in the first year of the College using it.

Sad to say, but way to many Government agencies use GroupWise.

Answer 2

In 2007, during the investigation of the dismissal of US attorneys by the Bush administration, at least 5 MILLION emails were lost. The current number of missing emails seems paltry by comparison. The current explanation sounds plausible.

Answer 3

Wow, I backed up my computer starting in the 70s with DOS lolololol. Where do you think pc's came from and if that woman has a brain that lame does she need to be in a position of power

Answer 4

I've got 1800 messages in my Yahoo inbox. I had 17,694 in the inbox of my previous account. None of them have, ever, been lost.



Kinda sucks to be you right now.



By the way; my hard drive's death does not mean I will lose all of my emails.

Answer 5

Oh I get it, so it just randomly happened for about 8 employees over the same time period, which just happens to be the time period being requested. Uh huh. Sure thing skippy

Answer 6

When all the E-mails are being backed up and saved by a private company, how can the IRS say they "lost" them?

Answer 7

Yeah and I sell Commodore64's for a living.

Answer 8

Are you seriously trying to convince us that is how our govt operates??? Wow, take off the blinders

Answer 9

Emails don't go away the NSA has them all. lol

Answer 10

ok... now explain how the White House Daily Security Briefing really works..



....or that thing about "keeping your insurance"