Request for email metadata

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

For all non-personal emails accounts in use by the governor and its staff, please provide me the following information for all emails sent and received between March 5 2018 and March 9, 2018.

1. From address
2. To address
3. bcc addresses
4. cc addresses
5. Time
6. Date

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 5 business days, as the statute requires.

Please note that I am a citizen of Virginia, and am using MuckRock's services to help manage and track my request.

Sincerely,

Tom Nash

If you use an email system, then the records responsive to my exist. This request does not require the creation of records, as the records pursuant to this request already exist in a discrete context separate from the contents of emails themselves. Any steps to retrieve the requested documentation is simply retrieving those discrete records.

Here is the technical documentation which describes how messages are stored within Exchange for storing emails: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee158780(v=exchg.80).aspx . The takeaway from this document is that while a message itself is an object (a record), there are subobjects (also records) for 1. the message body, 2. recipients and sender(s) 3. subject line and 4. attachments. To the extent that you would likely consider an attachment to be a distinct record, despite being a component of an email message in its method of storage, then it follows that the recipient objects of an email would be a distinct record apart from the message themselves.

With this information in mind, please re-review the request.

The provided documentation is not for creating records. It simply describes how the records are not records. Please review my request with a little bit more care.

Also, my last name is not Nash.