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Re: Passwords in emails

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Yes, but the transaction log is only used on messages that are
delivered to the information store. Also, the transaction logs are
truncated after each Full Backup.

MTAs that just relay, like the Exchange Edge Server role, a Spamfilter
Appliance, or an ISP Outbound Mailserver do not have any transaction
logs that are retained. Of course, they still store the message on the
local disks, but only for the purpose of having safe transactions -
they'll get overwritten within seconds.


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