How Do Email Servers Work? Please dont PARF...

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by Laneco

I will fully admit that the whole email/internet, etc., is kind of "magic" for me. I don't really know how it works, I just appreciate that it DOES - LOL!

When someone sends me an email, I may keep it for a long time depending on the subject matter. It is common for me to forward or resend an email that someone else needs who has deleted their copy. I still have my copy so I'll send it to them.

How did Clinton destroy 30,000 emails and no one anywhere has a single copy not even on a personal device? I figure that because I will sometimes save an email to my hard drive that other people probably do the same thing (I save technical type information and contract information).

I don't want to PARF this, I just want to know how this is physically possible that absolutely not one single person or one single device has one single item from 30,000 plus emails. Please remove Clinton from the discussion if it keeps it out of PARF.

thank you,

angela

There are copies of many of those emails, and a lot of time was already spent cross referencing other people's emails to Clintons. Some of it was reported on at the time.
Things may have gotten swept under the rug, but it wasn't just swept under the rug. They used a rake to try and find the really big nuggets. They never found those big nuggets, just a bunch of little nuts.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by jyl

I haven't paid that much attention to the details of the Clinton email thing. However, some quick searching shows that the 32,000 emails missing were claimed to be personal emails that were deleted, rather that government related emails. If these were in fact personal emails, to friends and family and other people not in the US government, then it would make sense that copies would not be found in the US government email systems. And if copies were in fact not found in those US government email systems, that would be consistent with the missing emails in fact being personal emails.

They already have found e-mails which were deleted elsewhere. For example, the reason the server was discovered were hacked e-mails from a private account. And those had work related e-mails and they were ones that were not turned over.

While it is likely that e-mails sent to/from the server from government accounts are possible to be found, but much more difficult. The problem is some of the State dept people had accounts on her server. Those accounts were not backed up.

Also, it has been found that many people in the Federal Government were using private accounts with assumed names to hide their identities , including Barack Obama and Lisa Jackson. The only resonance to do this would be to avoid Federal Records keeping.