Is it possible to store or archive all emails that are sent to or from our exchange 2007 server including local mail?We are looking to have a record (copy) of each and every email that passes through our exchange server. I've looked at 3rd party archive apps which are good but if a user receives and email then deleted it the same day its not picked up and archived. Ideally we would have a copy of the mail as its being transferred.Anyone know it this is possible either out the box or via a 3rd party app?

Hi Theelk, Email can be archived in a number of ways. This range from a simple Exchange online backup, to a solution where every message sent to or from your Exchange Organization is 'intercepted' out on the Internet and archived in transit. Alternatively there is the Exchange Server "message journaling" feature, where a copy of every e-mail that is sent from or received by, a specific Exchange store is copied to a chosen mailbox. There is also the idea of moving email out of the Exchange Information Store and into an archive; a database stored beyond the Exchange Organization but within your Exchange Administrators direct control. Journaling in Exchange Server 2007 makes use of the new role-based topology in Exchange. All messages are processed by Hub Transport servers when going to or coming from Mailbox and Unified Messaging servers, other Exchange systems, third-party applications, and the Internet. All Hub Transport servers contain a transport agent called the journaling agent, which is responsible for applying journal rules to messages. Since the journaling agent is located on the Hub Transport servers, it encounters and evaluates every message before the message reaches its recipient. The Journaling agent acts on messages after categorization—this ensures access to all of the message’s recipient and sender attributes, and it allows the agent to determine if the message was sent directly to a recipient or if it was received via distribution group expansion. It can also tell whether the recipient was on the To, the Cc, or the Bcc lines of a message that originated from within the Exchange Server 2007 organization. Also check the following Links: ü More Powerful Journaling in Exchange 2007 ü Overview of journaling in Exchange 2007 ü On email archivingCatastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure of some system from which recovery is impossible...Thats me....!

Exactly what I needed, many thanks.