Email Functionality - Document Management Information
Email is an increasingly used method of business correspondence and therefore an important information asset, liable to evidentiary discovery. However, with many email systems it is difficult to organise messages in a useful manner (especially in context with other related documents) and owing to their volumes they are prone perhaps more than other document formats to periodic archive or deletion, without consideration being given to their value as a record to be retained within the audit trail.
Increasingly, document management solutions are providing features for intelligent email management. Examples include:
Auto-categorise emails based on their header records and/or content
Search and retrieve emails based on their category values rather than scanning through the header records in in-boxes/folders
Route emails to those best qualified to deal with them
Secure and encrypt sensitive emails
Scan emails for content that can lead to potential legal liability
Scan emails for unauthorised dissemination of electronic work, product information or trade secrets
Integration with email systems such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook
For the purposes of records management, the solution should provide an archive capability which ideally retains and manages the emails, attributes (such as subject, sender, recipients, sent date etc.) and their attachments as a single record entity. Please also see the section on BSIPD5000.
