Email stubbing not always a good idea
Microsoft published a white paper on the subject of “Planning for large mailboxes with Exchange 2007″ last month, and this has caused some discussion about email stubbing around the blogosphere. Admittedly an arcane topic that not many people know or care about, stubbing can actually have a big impact on your email performance–but as it turns out, it’s not as easy as all that. At its essence, stubbing is just an archiving mechanism taht strips an email of its attachments, replaces it with a stub file or link within the message, and then stores the actual attachment in an archive. Whether or not to stub emails should be a part of the discussion when planning for email storage, simply because storage–especially for a large enterprise–can be a problem. Deleting older emails is not an option for many companies, because it might violate regulations–and that’s why you can still find a five-yearold email message about a co-worker’s retirement party still floating around somewhere. Similarly, moving emails to backup tapes or PST files can also sometimes make it difficult to find an email, or may even result in loss. Seriously, have you ever tried to get one of the IT guys to go back into that little room over by the coffee machines where they keep the backup tapes and try to find anything? Not going to happen! Read the rest of this article