E-mail tracking/log retention

[RYAN KIM]

Not so much of a technical issue, but was wondering how long everyone keeps their message tracking and/or e-mail logs around?  We use an M-Series, and it looks like you can't specify retention time, rather, you have to manually configure your disk size to limit or increase the amount of data you're keeping.

I'm curios what other folks are doing, how long they're keeping message tracking data available and/or if they have an overall e-mail retention policy.  I know some firms are under government guidelines to archive all electronic communication for 7 years or similar.

Thanks.

[Jason Meyer]

This is something that we are starting to discuss in our shop.   We are just starting to have e-mail retention/archive/discovery conversations and the logs on the IronPort appliances come into that every once in a while.  If it is something that is easy to do it may be advantageous to add the ability to set retention of these logs by length of time.  From a technical stand point so many MB is great, logic, easy to understand.  Unfortunately in the business/legal world they use a different type of thinking and like to speak in terms of days.  At least, that's been my expierience.

Long live the Iron Nation

Jason