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Something I get asked for by MailStore customers on a regular basis is an easy way for one user to search for messages within another's archive. One approach to this would simply be to log into the MailStore client as an Administrator, which would give you full rights over all the user archives but this is only really useful for one-off access - there is a much more elegant way to tackle this...

Networx Bandwidth MonitorI recently found myself working on a project where I needed to calculate how much bandwidth the average MDaemon server uses - I'm hoping if you're an MDaemon user, you'll be able to help me out here. Every server's usage is different of course - bandwidth will vary depending upon the number of users and the type and the number of emails, but I knew if I could arrive at an average across a handful of customer sites I'd be able to get close enough for my needs.

MailStore and Office365As Office365 and other hosted Exchange platforms continue to attract more users, we're starting to see more demand from customers looking for a way to keep an offline copy of their data 'just in case' the unthinkable should happen. MailStore is perfect for automating this process, and while there's a good setup guide online to cover the basics, last week a customer called in asking for help with the more 'niche' requirement of setting up MailStore to archive email going to aliases in O365.

MDaemon and Windows Performance MonitorOut of the box MDaemon has some very detailed logging and real-time statistics built into the application. In this post I'll show you how to learn more about what a server's doing using the free Performance Monitor feature in Windows.

Zen Software's LinkedIn page I recently ran a survey among our partner program members (all IT support companies) to find out which, if any, of the various social channels they use 'frequently', to help us understand how best to keep in touch. Of the 324 respondents the results were as follows:-