Corporate email has become an important source of evidence in many of today's high-profile court cases. As email takes on an increasingly critical role in corporate litigation, IT shops need to be prepared with an archiving plan should they be called upon by a judge to produce a single email or a series of electronic messages. Email archiving is still a relatively new idea that has been slow to take off, despite the recent attention it has received during the Enron trial and other highly publicized legal proceedings where corporate email has been central to the case. IT managers assigned the responsibility of developing <A HREF="http://searchcio.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci1189131,00.html?track=sy183">an email-archiving strategy</A> will be happy to know that there are options available to accommodate companies with varying budgets and wide-ranging security requirements.