Tuesday, December 4, 2007

E-Mail - Importance & Recovery

E-mail abbreviated for Electronic Mail is a way to send message over network. Use of email has increased remendously as it is fast, reliable, cheap and effective way of communication. In today's competitive world of business, email has become the important mode of communication. It has become the backbone of the organization.

Bigger organization uses their own mailing server to contact to the client or their own employee. Outlook express or Microsoft outlook is used to store the mails. As the mail server can store such a big amount of data and it is also unsecured. So the mails are down from mail server to the individual machine.

Storing of email includes physical storage, logical storage as well as backup and recovery. The biggest security threat to any mail storage is email data to be lost. The general loss of mails is because of viruses, system format, and accidental deletion of mail. Mail could also be lost due to outlook express gets corrupted or Microsoft outlook not opening.

To recover the mail from such conditions email recover software has been developed. Email recovery software scans extract and saves email from .mbx and .dbx files in which Microsoft Outlook Express stores messages and folders on the local drive.

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