[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] Need assistance: My boss lost all email

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Wed May 14 01:11:25 EDT 2008


I tend to restrain my opinions when it comes to Bush.

But Sendmail.com runs the Whitehouse mail. You'd think they would have 
provided this solution before.

JIM

Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> Can never be sure, but I think my tangential, sarcastic dig at the 
> Bush system admins went right by you.  Or maybe this went by me.
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:15 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd 
> <JECottrell3@comcast.net <mailto:JECottrell3@comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     Wrong. It should be trivially easy to make the Mail Delivery Agent
>     append the message to two mailboxes and to squirrel the clone
>     mailboxes away every night.
>
>     JIM
>
>     Kevin Dwyer wrote:
>
>         As we learned on arstechnica[1], the only sensible way to
>         implement anti-retention of e-mail is to use Exchange (and a
>         convoluted, manual scheme of "archives").
>
>         [1] http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars
>
>         On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:17 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
>         <JECottrell3@comcast.net <mailto:JECottrell3@comcast.net>
>         <mailto:JECottrell3@comcast.net
>         <mailto:JECottrell3@comcast.net>>> wrote:
>
>            What Forensic Guys? What Open Source Tools?
>
>            Outlook? You should have been using Firefox/Thunderbird to
>         browse
>            and read your email.
>
>            You seem to be looking for a Technical Solution to a Procedural
>            Problem. Magic Won't Save You.
>
>            And when is "33-05-08"?
>
>            [1] No Backups???
>            [2] This is a Linux group
>            [3] There are ways to look for deleted files, but files
>         which are
>            rewritten generally don't get their intermediate states saved.
>
>            JIM
>
>            Jay Hart wrote:
>
>                My boss was having problems with his laptop (which I
>         think is
>                running XP). so
>                they decided to redo his profile.  And, I guess didn't
>         catch
>                all the outlook
>                pst files. So, any email dated prior to 33-5-08 is gone.
>
>                What I need is one of you forensic guys to come over
>         and run
>                an open source
>                tool and see if you can find any of his email files
>         that might
>                still be
>                floating around.
>
>                See, you didn't think I was going to mention something
>                relevent to this list
>                on this thread, did ya???
>
>                Jay Hart
>
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