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Is a relayed email stored on the relaying server anywhere?

We use a third-party for our CMS that relays mail through our Exchange server. Are those sent emails available anywhere on our Exchange server or would the only place to look be the third-party where the message originated from?

strivoli

This is not necessary. Mails can be generated and sent without any need to be kept in any "Sent" Folder. Just imagine a Mail created with a PowerShell Script. It depends on the CMS and on the Exchange if tha latter has any means of capturing Mail relayed and kept for the Records somewhere.

Zee

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I'm being asked to find an email that was relayed through my mail server a few years ago. So in my case it is necessary to know whether a copy is kept somewhere automatically. I imagine that there is not and my mail server acts like a post office when mail is relayed through it. In which case I have no copy of that sent email.

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Zee

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Thanks Strivoli and Kevinhsieh. I figured that was the case, but wanted to get some feedback.

Darren Wood

If you are relaying using an exchange receive connector you have a copy of every thing relayed in the logs fir the receive connector. But as you have stated that it was from a few years ago it would not hold that info.

Zee

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Thanks for chiming in Darren. Unfortunately that's not something you could use as a copy of the actual sent email for legal purposes.