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De-enveloping

(For Microsoft Exchange emails only)

The envelope journaling feature in Microsoft Exchange enables organizations to archive transport envelope data. This identifies the recipients who received the message, including recipients from distribution lists and blind carbon-copy (Bcc) recipients. When an email has been through the envelope journaling process, the result is an envelope message, or 'wrapper' email, that contains a journal report plus an attachment containing the original email. In effect, it reconstitutes a version of the original e‑mail. The journal report (the body text of the envelope message) contains the transport envelope data of the original email.

The Universal Adapter can be configured to reformat e‑mails that have been through the envelope journaling process. That is, it unwraps them so the envelope data, email message body and the complete list of recipients (represented in their true To, CC, From field allocation) are all available in one flat message format. This is much more convenient for any reviewers who subsequently need to review the email after it has been archived.

Note: The detailed recipient information is presented as a hidden property and must be read by a bespoke application.