Jim,<br><br>I've been looking into Google Apps as well and it looks like their Postini product can do archiving up to 10 years if necessary. Without Postini I don't believe that there is a Google retention policy. Here's a link that you might find helpful:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/security_discovery.html">http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/security_discovery.html</a><br><br>Greg Ramage<br>IT Manager<br>Upper Arlington Public Library<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Jim Lack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:J.Lack@rrpl.org">J.Lack@rrpl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Can anyone is in laymen’s terms tell me what the email archive and retention policy is for the State of Ohio? I have a vendor trying to sell me some services regarding this issue. We are also considering going to Gmail for our staff email solution. Does anyone know what Google’s retention policy is for public entities? Will they be able to produce archived emails (let’s say at least four years old) if someone needed them for legal purposes? If anyone has an answer to these questions, can you let me know.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jim Lack</span></p>
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