Brain Dead Email Clients (Outlook) « Practical E-Records
As I noted in my original post, Outlook includes a number of frustrating
features that work against digital preservation best practice, such an
auto-archive function that writes files to a proprietary format and deletes
what it assumes to be unnecessary message.  Here is another one:  If  you
follow the default settings and configure Outlook to read a Gmail account,
it will delete all email from the Google server and transfer it to your
desktop in the .pst format–as the screenshots below  illustrate.

http://bit.ly/aCR0os

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