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by darkerside 1797 days ago
Weren't these all emails already? Weren't you required to retain them for the SEC even before falling into this specific (hypothetical) inbox?
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It's not clear from the message whether the software is setting up their own email system, if so it will need to be audited and certified, which is a major hassle.

Either way, the auditors and the infrastructure might not want to handle an order of magnitude more traffic (API usage is really in a different league than occasional human email). Expect all emails to have to be stored for around a decade.

For the original system, no, they were not emails.