If you're a small business user looking for ways to manage large amounts of email residing in your server or mailbox, the built-in archiving features of Outlook can understandably look pretty tempting. They're easy to use, they're right there in front of you and perhaps what makes them most attractive, they're free!
However, as you've probably anticipated from the title of my post, we're not the greatest fan of archiving to PST as a long-term solution to the issue and there are number of considerations worth being aware of before you rely on this as the primary method for archiving your company's email communications.
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="314"] Heinz Wietfeld (Global Sales Director at MailStore) & Jerry Donald (Co-CEO at Alt-N Technologies)[/caption] MailStore offers first-class integration with MDaemon Messaging Server, the popular email server for...
So you've just been told Outlook is going to look a bit different. Your IT support person has installed this new-fangled "MailStore" system to help "reduce load" on the email...
We're very pleased to announce that national daily newspaper The Guardian, now trusts in MailStore Server for efficiently and securely managing its emails. The newspaper is published by Guardian News...
I had an interesting support request recently where a customer asked if there was a way to archive a particular user's mail folders in slightly different ways to all the other users.
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="350"] Kerio Connect integration[/caption] There's no doubt that the vast majority of customers I speak to about MailStore are using it for archiving Exchange in one of it's...
We have recently seen an increase in customers wanting to bring a large selection of PST files into their MailStore archive. It's quite common for people to create local PST file archives of their own email and historically this was a common way to reduce the data within the mailbox on their mail server. The problem we see is that over time many users build up multiple local PST files and as these are scattered around on various client machines it gets very difficult and costly to keep them all backed up. If you also consider in this scenario there is also no way for users to search each others archive it makes it very difficult to meet compliance requirements.
In the last couple of weeks I've come across a few customers with MailStore installations where they've experienced corruption of their archived data due to either a damaged disk, RAID failure or power outage for example.
All of these situations are of course completely outside of MailStore's control but they're ones where the only practical recovery method is to rebuild from a previous backed up version of the MailStore data.
Just a quick entry to share with you that MailStore have recently announced child aid agency UNICEF have begun using their popular email archiving software at their Switerland offices. http://www.unicef.org.uk/...
