Email is a business critical application for nearly every
organisation, but the ease of distribution, storage and deletion
presents huge challenges as to how to retain vital information
contained within email traffic.
Whether it is the need to search emails in order to establish
the exact terms of contract with a supplier, a trawl through
inboxes to locate information concerning a disgruntled employee who
has made a Subject Access Request under the Data Protection Act1,
or a request for information made to a public authority, the
proliferation of email and the relatively unstructured storing of
it can make searching for data time consuming, laborious and
possibly fruitless.
Read this whitepaper from MessageLabs that looks at:
- Why should emails be retained?
- The Legal Issues
- The Practical Basis
- Forming and Enforcing an Email Retention policy
