Searching An Email System Dumpster

A system for management of electronic discovery on a computing device, the system comprising:

• a search module;
• and
• one or more mailbox modules, each mailbox module including an inbox folder, a sent items folder, a deleted items folder and a dumpster folder, the dumpster folder receiving input from the deleted items folder, the dumpster folder containing one or more email messages to be removed from the server computer when the one or more email messages have been stored in the dumpster folder for a specified period of time;
• wherein, the search module searches one or more mailbox module folders, including the dumpster folder, during an electronic discovery request.

A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a server computer, cause the server computer to:

• receive a request on the server computer to search for one or more email messages in one or mailboxes on the server computer, each of the one or more mailboxes being associated with a specific user, each of the one or more mailboxes including a dumpster folder, the request including search criteria, the request including a parameter indicating whether the dumpster folder associated with a mailbox should be searched, the dumpster folder storing one or more email messages that have been deleted from a user's mailbox;
• identify one or more mailboxes that satisfy the search criteria in the request;
• and
• if the parameter indicates that the dumpster folder should be searched, querying the dumpster folder of each of the identified mailboxes that satisfy the search criteria in the request and identifying any email messages in each dumpster folder that satisfy the search criteria in the request.