About SMTP archiving

The Enterprise Vault SMTP archiving feature enables Enterprise Vault to capture and archive SMTP messages at the point of delivery to a Microsoft SMTP Server (the SMTP service that is included in Windows Server 2000 and later). The SMTP archiving feature operates independently of the messaging solution that you employ.

You may have messaging or workflow applications in your organization that use SMTP to communicate with users or other applications. Increased compliance legislation may require you to archive this communication and make it available for auditing. By using SMTP archiving, you can capture and store the messages centrally. Then you can search, view and, if necessary, restore the messages using Enterprise Vault Search or Archive Explorer clients.

You cannot use SMTP archiving to archive MAPI messages.