re: Ok, walk me through IRS email situation...

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We need to stop focusing on the hard drive

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Agreed. The whole point of my explanation was to explain how the e-mails should be on the hard drive.

Somebody said earlier tht the IRS requess that people delete e-mails because they are running out of storage. Usually, this is called archiving, where the employee stores the e-mails on their hard-drive and they are deleted from the e-mail server. This is OK, because we know that the e-mails that are deleted from the server are stored on multiple backups, so they don't have to be stored on the server, where they can be accessed quickly, but on the backup, where they can be accessed in special circumstances. A subpoena is a special circumstance.