Email Archiving Needs Delivery Proof.

 

 

A major reason to archive email is so that one can respond to discovery requests.

 

Internet mail can easily be forged, and there's no good way to prove that an email has been received. So even though you have a copy of an email you sent in your archive, a third party can easily deny they received it, or they can deny the email contained specific contents.

 

Ideally, one would like archives to have some sort of proof of delivery, and some sort of proof that the content hasn't been tampered with.

 

RPost (www.rpost.com) has a solution. It provides a way you can show an email hasn't been tampered with, and also provides legally verifiable evidence that the email has arrived at the receiving organization. While this doesn't prove the end recipient has read or understood the email, it does transfer the burden of proof of denial of delivery to the recipient's organization. Importantly, it does this without keeping a copy of the email, and the receiver doesn't have to take any compliant action.

 

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