Something I don't get in all the coverage of whether Karl Rove and/or others in the White House did or did not delete their emails-- it shouldn't matter. As a rule, email doesn't go directly from one computer to the other. It goes from the sender's machine to a mail gateway, through the intertubes to the recipients email server, and only then is downloaded to the recipient's machine. These email servers are not controlled by Karl Rove. It shouldn't make a whit of difference whether Karl did or did not delete his emails. All of his email traffic should have been captured by the mail servers and tucked away, safe from his grubby little paws.
I'm not an email sysadmin, but it didn't take that long to find out how to do this for both SendMail and Exchange. Surely the White House and RNC sysadmins are well aware of this.
Posted by Jason at April 14, 2007 12:37 PM