[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] Need assistance: My boss lost all email

[Kevin Dwyer]

As we learned on arstechnica[1], the only sensible way to implement
anti-retention of e-mail is to use Exchange (and a convoluted, manual scheme
of "archives").

[1] http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:17 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <
JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:

> What Forensic Guys? What Open Source Tools?
>
> Outlook? You should have been using Firefox/Thunderbird to browse and read
> your email.
>
> You seem to be looking for a Technical Solution to a Procedural Problem.
> Magic Won't Save You.
>
> And when is "33-05-08"?
>
> [1] No Backups???
> [2] This is a Linux group
> [3] There are ways to look for deleted files, but files which are
> rewritten generally don't get their intermediate states saved.
>
> JIM
>
> Jay Hart wrote:
>
> > My boss was having problems with his laptop (which I think is running
> > XP). so
> > they decided to redo his profile.  And, I guess didn't catch all the
> > outlook
> > pst files. So, any email dated prior to 33-5-08 is gone.
> >
> > What I need is one of you forensic guys to come over and run an open
> > source
> > tool and see if you can find any of his email files that might still be
> > floating around.
> >
> > See, you didn't think I was going to mention something relevent to this
> > list
> > on this thread, did ya???
> >
> > Jay Hart
> >
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