Google Message Archiving Administration Guide - Manual (Page 10)

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Introduction
Chapter 1
About Message Archiving
Welcome to Message Archiving, an easy-to-deploy solution for storing electronic
communications for the purposes of data retention, regulatory compliance, and
legal discovery. Message Archiving can capture all email messages that users on
your network send and receive, and store them in a central corporate archive.
Authorized users can then retrieve stored messages at any time, using
comprehensive search options, and export them to files or to their email inboxes.
Moreover, you can optionally provide each user with access to the Personal
Archive, which lets a user search for, view, and export only his or her archived
email messages.
Message Archiving integrates with your Message Discovery service, a service
that filters junk and virus-infected email messages before they reach your
network.
As part of your managed Message Discovery service, Message Archiving requires
no additional hardware or software on your network, so you can streamline the
storage of all your inbound, outbound, and internal electronic communications.
And because it works with the junk-email and virus filters of your Message
Discovery service, Message Archiving stores only legitimate messages, saving
storage space and reducing the time required to retrieve specific messages from
the archive.