Email Archiving Recommendations

Why Message Archiving?

With Message Archiving you are able to keep a record of all messages that are sent from and received to your domain.

Keeping a record of all e-mails sent and received is important for many reasons such as:

• E-discovery in a legal investigation
• Retrieving e-mails from an employee after they have left the company
• Restoring an e-mail that has been accidentally deleted

Google Message Discovery is $11/user/year for a 10 year archive. This is a 66% discount for EDU.

Below, please find a list of email archiving solutions:

1. Cheap Email Archiving Workaround - You can find one in response to #3 at http://www.mguhlin.org/2011/04/debunking-6-googleapps-for-education.html
2. Enkive - http://www.enkive.org. They are an open source e-mail archiving and ediscovery solution. They state that they can work with Google Apps and encourage anyone interested to engage with their professional services to make it happen. I think I read where it involves using a "gateway", which basically has the mail flow through it and Enkive ties in with the gateway to capture the e-mail messages (both incoming and outgoing).
3. Postini - Available at a 66% discount to schools (although there is a minimum deal size for that of $1500). It is a cost per user per year. For more information and to contact sales see: http://www.google.com/postini/discovery.html
   1. This is the solution most TEC-SIG members have reported using with GoogleApps (e.g. Bland ISD, Robert Lee ISD, White Oak ISD), and/or MS Exchange (e.g. Whiteface CISD). Water Valley CISD (James Ditmore) doesn't like it, though, but his service is through an ESC.