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I'm using exchange server 2003 and have been requested to provide all emails with specific words in the subject and body from the past 5 years...is this possible without additional hardware/software?

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by fbrown

Unfortunately no logging...and yes...I will be going through volumes of backup tapes...

by cg it

or simply backup with transaction logs?

by fbrown

I am hoping I am not going to be limited to the Sender/Server/Recipients fields in the message tracking center for this...if so do you know of any software/hardware I can search the body or subject line for this?

by Member 25348569

If you're doing mailbox-level, most backups have the option to search. Otherwise you can restore a database into the Recovery Storage Group and run Exmerge against that. Exmerge will let you scan subject, body and attachments.

by cg it

restore to the Recovery Storage Group. requires work but there you go.

We use GFI to archive as well as their spam filtering. Really nice program. costs a bit but it's far better than doing email recovery from backups then searching.

The drawback to restore to the Recovery Storage Group is that it chews up disk space. On a system with marginal free space, where the stores are located, this can pose a problem, like in our case. That's where the GFI mail archiver came in. We archive to an external drive. Easy to do and easy recovery.

by fbrown

Thank you for your assistance...would you recommend Barracuda product?

by cg it

and GFI gave us a good deal on pricing per user for both the spam filter and mail archiver.

So can't really give you a yea or nay on Barracuda spam filter.

by mafergus

Barracuda makes a decent product. Had one in use for the past five years and it did the job it needed to do.

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