Most servers do keep full messages in their logs. That is how you
rebuild your database after it gets corrupted and you have to restore
the last backup. You then apply the logs to recover all data from the
last backup. At least in our Exchange 2003 environment.
Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:13 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Passwords in emails
Each one will have a plain text log showing the contents of the email.
I'm not suggesting that passwords be sent in the clear, but is this
really the case, that email server log files will contain the contents
of the email? While I know the servers obviously get a copy of the
message in order to forward it, do any servers keep the full message
text in their logs?
_Could_ they do this, sure, but from a practical point of view, _do_
they? Ignoring an archiving email server, which is a totally different
thing, and more of a regulatory issue, it would seem to me that keeping
a complete copy of every email that crossed a relaying MTA would be a
waste of disk space.
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