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ExchangeDefender Compliance Archiving Data Access

  ExchangeDefender Compliance Archive provides secure, long-term storage, recovery and eDiscovery system that assures compliance with regulatory requirements established by IRS, HIPAA, SOX and SEC.

   Web Access [¶](#web-access) 
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ExchangeDefender clients can access compliance archive data securely at:

[https://compliancearchive.exchangedefender.com](https://compliancearchive.exchangedefender.com)

Our friendly user interface enables users to quickly locate the message and print/download it.

   Command Line Access [¶](#cli-access) 
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ExchangeDefender Compliance Archive data can be accessed via command line interface tool cacli. ExchangeDefender provides cacli tool for Windows, Linux, and MacOS X and can be downloaded at:

[https://www.exchangedefender.com/media/cacli-v1.0.0.zip](https://www.exchangedefender.com/media/cacli-v1.0.0.zip)

Command line interface supports list (listing of messages in a mailbox) and view (showing contents of the selected message).

Username and password are always domain credentials (same authentication used for Domain Admin login at [https://admin.exchangedefender.com](https://admin.exchangedefender.com)) and password can be provided in plain text (bad) or MD5 hash (better).

Usage: cacli view

View messages from compliance

Flags: 
 -h, --help Show context-sensitive help. 
\--debug 
\--include-body Include message body in result 
 -u, --username=example.com Domain name 
 -p, --password=\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Domain password &lt;
 -i, --message-id=1 
 -m, --mailbox-email=user@example.com

Usage: cacli list

List messages from compliance

Flags:

 -h, --help Show context-sensitive help. 
\--debug 
 -L, --limit=10 limit results 
 -S, --skip=10 skip results 
 -u, --username=example.com Domain name 
 -p, --password=\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Domain password 
 -m, --mailbox-email=user@example.com

For example, to view the first message in the ExchangeDefender Compliance Archive for *demo@demo.exchangedefender.com*:

&gt;&gt; cacli view -i 1 -m demo@demo.exchangedefender.com -u demo.exchangedefender.com -p b9492ebbaf0201b121eefc

Output:

+-----+----------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+------------------------------+ 
| ID | FROM | TO | SUBJECT | ATTACHMENTS | RECEIVED |
+-----+----------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+------------------------------+ 
| 1 | social@facebook.com | demo@demo.exchangedefender.com| Elmhurn Blvd | No | 2013-01-31 09:05:00|
+-----+----------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+------------------------------+

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