A Programmatically Accessible Email Archive?

JohnnyConatus asks: "Does anyone know of a service that offers corporate email archiving and also provides a read-only interface for accessing the archived emails programmatically? Ideally this would be in the form of an database connection or a web service. My current employer is required by the SEC to archive all email communication with clients and we would like to incorporate the archived emails into our internal applications. I have called just about every email archive service I could find via Google, and while most offer a web application to search the emails, none so far have a solution for doing so programmatically. For various reasons, archiving the emails ourselves is considered the last resort. If we had to implement archiving locally, a program that archived by acting as a mail gateway would be the ideal since we'll be supporting a wide-range of mail servers."

Re:geocities, archive.org and public key cryptogra

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

So, you are suggesting saving possible critical email at Geocities? Why didn't I think of that...

Re:IMAP

[eoyount]

I'm not sure you should let everyone on /. know that you automatically post images in your email...