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

[Kevin Dwyer]

Can never be sure, but I think my tangential, sarcastic dig at the Bush
system admins went right by you.  Or maybe this went by me.

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:15 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <
JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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