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In reply to the discussion: The FBI Took Down Hillary - She Didn't Have A Chance [View all]mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)... begin with.
EVERY EMAIL has a sender and a recipient (except emails sent to one's self or to people in one's own office ... and that only works if nobody has their email client setup to make local copies and instead all comps act as pure 'clients' thus all emails exist only on the 'office' email server), right?
No IT person worth their salt would ever recommend to their boss/manager or whatnot (and it WAS her IT people that deleted the personal ones that the Right is all up in arms about) that there is ANY practicality to 'hiding' emails by deleting them from your firms email server.
Because except in the aforementioned unique cases, there's ALWAYS a risk of a copy existing somewhere else ... the email server of the person who you sent your email to, or the email server of someone who sent an email to you. That's at minimum, it's possible they got copied on more servers than that, in fact it's likely if senders/recips were on government networks which I'm sure do a LOT of tracking and making copies w/o the ave. users even knowing about it.