It's likely that if you've been using Outlook to archive your emails, by the time you get to the point where you're ready to  use a dedicated email archiving product such as MailStore, you'll have a number of PST archive files knocking about, and quite possibly in a variety of locations. There are a long list of reasons why we recommend against archiving to PST (which you can read all about in another post), but in this article I'm going to focus on what to do if you have gone down that route, and show you how to upload and centralise multiple PST archives in one go rather than one at a time.

How should you archive with MailStore?       If you've just downloaded MailStore, you're no doubt primed and ready to start hitting "next, next, next" to get up and running as soon as possible. Before you do however, it is worth just taking a moment to think about your requirements in a little more detail. We see all sorts of weird and wonderful variations to cater for different customer scenarios, but in most cases you'll need to consider which combination of "journalling", and direct connection to individual mailboxes you're going to use to archive your email.

Research In Motion™ have just released an important security patch for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server platforms that could potentially affect MDaemon Messaging Server. This patch addresses a vulnerability in BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)  that process images and so only affects MDaemon installations that have the optional BES server installed. If you're an MDaemon customer running the BES component we recommend you follow the instructions in this knowledge base guide to be on the safe side.

"Simplify it" was the brief the BackupAssist team were given to work with for version 7 and those of you who've been following our preview posts will already know that's exactly what they've managed to achieve. I'm pleased to be letting you know the latest major release of the fantastic BackupAssist software is now available for download from our site. Download BackupAssist v.7.0 here. "What's new in version 7?" video here.

Back up your data off-site with RsyncIn this new stand-alone BackupAssist "how-to" video released by developer Cortex, we see how you can check if the Image backup you have taken has everything needed to perform a full Bare Metal recovery.
As with all backups it is imperative that you verify the backups to be sure they contain what you expect so we'd highly recommend you take a look at this video when you get a moment...

Over the last few months we have had an increasing number of support calls that relate to failing SMTP connections over Internet connections. This can happen on a range of network connections, whether it's mobile devices on 3G or home users trying to access their MDaemon mail server. Even businesses can find that they can no longer create outbound SMTP sessions on port 25 on their office broadband connections.

We're aware that many of you are patiently awaiting the release of BackupAssist v7.0, so you'll be pleased to know we have a date! Yes, we expect the latest iteration...

With the release of BlackBerry v10.0 last week, the method for synchronising the new set of BlackBerry 10 devices with MDaemon has changed. A BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is no longer required for synchronisation, and handsets now use the ActiveSync standard for personal data synchronisation. The process of setting up an ActiveSync account on a BlackBerry 10 device is actually quite similar to the Android and iOS devices, requiring just the server details, email address and password in order to connect.