Email Routes and Locations

When we provide training on ediscovery, one of the issues we address is the various places where emails can be found, and the routes which they can take to get to those repositories. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, we worked with the head of our firm’s IT department to develop a PowerPoint slide that visually depicts this information which we now use in our training sessions.

We have attached our slide below, and if you click on the image, it will enlarge for your ease of reference. Admittedly, not every email system will have all of the various features shown on our slide, and there can be other repositories in some systems that we did not include, but our slide does provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the various “nooks and crannies” where emails can be found.

While it is not as complex as a map of New Orleans, our slide shows that the world wide web is not exactly an information superhighway. Rather, it’s more like a medieval European city where you can easily get lost if you can’t read the signs or know where you are going. Hopefully our slide will prevent you from getting lost, and will help you find what you are looking for.

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If you want to use this slide for any reason, just drop Steve or Evan a note.