My company *requires* me to age out email (Score 2, Interesting)

Seems apropos. My company, who I can't name for reprisal purposes, is a fortune 10 company. We have a policy that any email must be deleted after 30 days. No backup of any electronic means. However, *paper* archive is fine, and is the only approved method of maintaining email over 30 days. It's insane. What my colleages do is zip up our outlook folders, encript, rename, and save to "safe" backup folder to let our system save it on tape/dlt. If I ever need an important "pearl harbor" file, then I can request an old renamed, zipped backup, and then pull it. I've done it once.

The main reason for this is that the lawyers waaaay up there in the chain got really afraid of the Enron type email digging, and released the policy of "destroy, good or bad"

It sux.