Interesting…
[QUOTE]Generally speaking, data is everywhere," he said. "People manage it badly. People store it everywhere. The packrat in everybody gets the best of them.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130734-c,email/article.html
Interesting article. Thanks for posting this.
The White House staffers should have read these forums ;D as this has been discussed in the past, emails (like files) aren’t deleted, just the reference to them is deleted. Until the deleted emails folder is emptied and you compact the emails folders they still exist.
Whilst these tools should be able to pick-up emails deleted as the content is still there it may be much more difficult once the folders are compacted.
Don’t forget the server-side backups that are always present, even after you delete and compact folders. I can’t tell you how many times the Exchange admins have been able to “miraculously” recover e-mail that “lusers” have accidentally lost.
Does anybody knows some of these computer forensics tools mentioned?
When we delete an email, the Recycle bin (Excluded itens) are empty… how can we recover an email that was already downloaded from the server? :
There are many tools for trying to recover emails, though when you talk of forensic I think you are into a different ball park.
There are a few email tools in this category, http://www.snapfiles.com/shareware/system/swdatarecovery.html.
Yeah… I’m not looking for ‘recovery’ tools, undelete files… but something more powerful…
Is this what you’re looking for?
http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Data-Recovery-Software.html
Seems powerful… thanks God I don’t need them right now, but in fact, seems promising…
Not all email can be recovered. Example: it’s mission impossible to recover Lycos mail:
