Google Message Archiving Administration Guide - Manual (Page 12)

Introduction 13
Features and Benefits
Message Archiving provides a complete solution for message capture, secure
storage, search and discovery, and archive management and access.
Feature Benefits
Email capture
and archiving • Captures all inbound, outbound, and intradomain
(internal) email messages and attachments and
stores them in a central, corporate archive.
• Integrates with your message security service,
filtering to ensure that only legitimate email is
archived. Your message archive remains free of junk
mail and virus-infected messages.
• Automatically archives any email messages that
users or administrators view or deliver from
quarantine.
• Automatically accepts encrypted messages if your
email server uses TLS (Transport Layer Security).
Storage and
business
continuity • Provides long-term storage of archived messages.
• In the event that your email server is unavailable,
archives inbound messages before they are spooled.
• Automatically deletes messages at the end of the
month after their retention period has expired.
• Supports holding messages beyond their retention
periods.
Search and
discovery • Allows authorized users to search for, view, and
export messages in the archive, using a Web-based
interface.
• Provides robust search options with which users can
search for messages based on date range, sender,
recipient, subject, content, or file attachments.
Message export • Forwards archived messages to an email address.
• Saves archived messages to an industry-standard
MBOX or PST file. The MBOX format is supported by
other search and management tools, such as
litigation support systems. You can import PST files in
Outlook, or open unencrypted PST files in text or
hexidecimal editors.