After all the fuss, turns out Hillary's servers did a better job preserving emails

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29. for over a decade now

all major email server platforms have supported journaling.... basically archiving all inbound and outbound messages... the features were added around 2001-2003 to address regulations being added to financial institutions... beyond that there were many third party smtp pass through devices that did this before the major vendors added the functionality...

My background in email comes from working @ Lotus development on one of the early SMTP MTAs in the late 90's and supporting an email system used by a large university after that... (BTW don't complain to me if you didn't like notes - I have heard it all already)

The federal Government was a big client of Lotus at the time and we have a special version with extra security made just for them... Before journaling became a core feature we demo'd adding the functionality to the MTA around 1999. That feature only journaled messages going into and out of the system... not messages that stayed in the system. Later on that functionality was added to core...

There would have been no excuse to not have this going by 2009...