Does Google Apps for Business provide a way to download all emails from all accounts periodically? The format of the download is not important. We'd just not want to set something up for each individual user.
Our 20-employee company is considering using Google Apps for Business as our email solution, but management requires that we also keep local backup copies of all sent and received email.
Best Answer
There are some very good services from Google for accomplishing user auditing on all Google services. Google basically stores stuff in an Atom feed that lets you play back changes.
This will help you get access to all data on any Google service how you requested it: Admin APIs
But if you are interested in real auditing tool, I recommend the Vault. Which is an extra 5 USD per month (total 10 USD per user account per month on the domain, and all users must be enabled for the vault).
There are other Google apps applications available on the Market that make use of the vault, or you can code your own.