Mary wrote:
>
> <"Do any of you have policies specifically
> related to .pst files?  If so, what do your policies specify?>
>

and Doug (in part) said:

>
>
> My law firm management has approved a policy banning creation or use of
> PSTs for indvidual e-mail management.  .  Those who are given rights will be
> monitored for PST creation to ensure that the creation is within the scope
> of the authorization.


Okay, so here's a question for others whoa re suffering through a MicroSloth
$Exchange Server and Outlook environment...  pst files are  copies of e-mail
messages (sort of) that are stored in a personal folder locally, right?

So what is missing from them that is in the original message... do you
retain all of the original transmission data and recipient records and the
header information, or is it/are they altered in some manner at all?  Is a
new date or other data appended to them or is any of the "blah, blah, blah"
removed??

We've spent a couple of days discussing the manner in which e-mails are
managed and used when they meet the definition of a record, but does a PST
copy/version of an M$ message represent 100% accurately the original message
as sent or received??

Everything I've seen on pst files so far discusses how to fix them, what the
problems are with them, 3rd party products to work with them, limited files
sizes to store them, compression and expansion of them, etc... none of this
sounds as though they're a positive manner to manage e-mail that rises to
the level of a record, especially if it's a long-term record.   AND, it's a
proprietary format...

Larry






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Larry Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972

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