[ale] Why Run your own email server?

[DJ-Pfulio]

It was Exchange running on a Comcast Biz connection before they
outsourced it. I don't recall any other details.

Ars had extensive coverage of everything known the last few years, if
you want more details.

I'm honestly surprised that any of those original emails still existed.
Guess everyone (i.e. Clinton's) haven't been to corporate training about
keeping emails 90 days or moving them to a system of record that follows
the corporate data destruction rules? Basically, if the data inside an
email is that important, it should have ended up somewhere else in the
project files, which would be the "official record."  Having the raw
email is seldom good, unless it is CYA.

Plus having received multiple legal department emails to "retain and
forward all emails related to XYZ corporation" until told otherwise, is
a pain.  Best not to have any by that point.




On 09/29/2016 05:21 PM, Ken Cochran wrote:
> Curious, is there any info on the specifics of Mrs. Clinton's
> email server/hardware/config/software?  I wonder if it
> was, say, a Linux or BSD box or some kind of turn-key-ish
> "appliance"-thing from the likes of Barracuda or ???  (I'd
> suppose if it were some M$-powered thing it would happily &
> randomly delete All Kinds Of Stuff :P).  I haven't seen anything
> but it might be that snake I overlooked...  Thanks, -k
> 
> PS:  "Beating" has become the family euphemism for shopping
> at Wal-Mart, e.g. "I'm off to my beating" = well, you know...