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If I was a CTO or legal counsel at bigcorp I'd say we're going to POP3 and everyone's email lives on their hard drives. Given the risks, I don't understand why

If I was a CTO or legal counsel at bigcorp I'd say we're going to POP3 and everyone's email lives on their hard drives. Given the risks, I don't understand why companies keep around big, easily subpoena-able email databases.

huhtenberg 16y ago
>why companies keep around big, easily subpoena-able email databases. Because in many jurisdictions it is required by law. (edit) For publicly traded companies that is.
- rubashov 16y ago
  Maybe for certain business activity, like I dunno, HIPAA related stuff. But I'd be shocked if there are any statutes requiring email retention across an entire organization.
  - tpiddy 16y ago
    i dont know the specifics but i'm fairly sure sarbanes oxley specifies that emails should be retained within their document retention guidelines.
    - rubashov 16y ago
      I really doubt sarbox says anything about email.
- mturmon 16y ago
  Eric Schmidt of Google claims to delete essentially all his e-mails: http://www.slate.com/id/2249124/pagenum/all http://www.slate.com/id/2249124/pagenum/all
tedunangst 16y ago
Because when you get a subpoena for everyone's email, it's less disruptive fetching it off the mail server than taking the hard drives out of everybody's workstations.
rmc 16y ago
POP3 means that if someone loses their laptop, someone else can access all your internal emails. Or if someone's harddrive dies you no longer have a backup of email.