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About Email Archive

About Email Archive

Proofpoint Essential's Email Archive helps protect organizations from legal liabilities and regulatory risks, while improving email storage management and end-user productivity. Email messages are stored in a centralized Archive accessible from a web browser as well as from Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web Access (OWA). Designated users can access the Archive in order to search for and read the full history of their email communications, or retrieve past communications and forward them to others.

The previous version of this feature has been renamed "Legacy Archive":  if the previous version has been implemented, launching the Archive feature will prompt you to choose either the legacy or current version.

Availability

Proofpoint Essentials Email Archive is available in both US and EU regions. 

Archiving Process

Email communications are collected using one of these methods:

  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which connects to a customer location to access and pull journaled email.
  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), which sends email to an external SMTP address.

Both of these methods leverage Microsoft Exchange's Journaling feature. When enabled, journaling ensures a copy of all internal, outbound and inbound email is captured. This includes the original email's content, as well as additional information (e.g sender, recipients, CC/BCC and group membership).

Once data is captured, content is extracted and stored within Proofpoint's Cloud infrastructure. Data remains under management until it is disposed according to a customer's retention setting. Archived data is encrypted at rest using unique per-customer encryption keys.

Key Features

Features

Benefits

Compliance  

Retention

Apply retention policy to archived email.

Audit Trail

All configuration changes and user activities are audited.

Legal Discovery  

Search

Fast, self-service search enables real-time insight.

Self-Serve Export

Export search results to ZIP.

Legal Hold

Reduce risk by implementing enforced preservation of email.

End-user Access  

Intuitive user interface

End users can easily retrieve archived content via a web-browser.

Search

End users can search their personal archive.

Saved Searches

End users can save search criteria in order to repeat search at a future date.

Other  

User Permissions

Assign additional administrative and discovery archive access permissions to users.

User Sync

Users and groups can be synced via Active Directory (AD) Sync or Azure AD Sync tools.

Supported Exchange Versions

Exchange Version

SMTP

IMAP

Exchange 2010

Not Supported

Supported

Exchange 2013

Supported

Supported

Exchange 2016

Supported

Supported

Office 365

Supported

Not Supported

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