If, as a public corporation, you were to do that you'd end up being sued anyway. Sarbanes-Oxley not only requires e-mail retention, but the SEC can impose signi

If, as a public corporation, you were to do that you'd end up being sued anyway. Sarbanes-Oxley not only requires e-mail retention, but the SEC can impose significant fines if e-mails end up 'disappearing'. To put it another way: if you turned around during discovery and told the other party you'd deliberately used a system that caused all your e-mails to self-destruct you could expect to be destroyed in court.