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

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Wrong. It should be trivially easy to make the Mail Delivery Agent 
append the message to two mailboxes and to squirrel the clone mailboxes 
away every night.

JIM

Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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