In-place e-mail procurement and archive system

An archive system configured to manage an archive of e-mails as in-place e-mails in an enterprise architecture and facilitating retrieval of the in-place e-mails, comprising:

• a storage system;
• and
• a server connected to the storage system by a network, the server comprising:
• a processor, configured to:
• receive one or more journal copies of an e-mail directed to the enterprise architecture;
• retrieve one or more message identifiers (IDs) from the one or more journal copies of the e-mail for management in a full text index managed by the storage system;
• in response to a request to retrieve one or more of the in-place e-mails from the enterprise architecture associated with a message ID from the message IDs:
• provide the message ID to an application programming interface (API) associated with the enterprise architecture to retrieve one or more processing points used by the enterprise architecture to process a journal copy from the journal copies corresponding to the message ID;
• and
• provide the retrieved one or more processing points associated with the requested one or more of the in-place e-mails to the API to retrieve the requested one or more of the in-place e-mails from one or more devices storing the one or more of the in-place e-mails.