MailStore v11.0 is here! GDPR-ready Retention Policies and Enhanced Security

April 18, 2018May 8, 2018 / steelsnaps / Leave a comment

MailStore version 11 is now live and available for download from our Web site. Just a few weeks ahead of the EU General Data Protection Regulation implementation, this timely release focuses on two key areas, security and compliance.

If you’re wondering where email archiving fits into the GDPR piece, you might find our recent video ‘10 ways MailStore can help satisfy GDPR‘ and the official MailStore advisory PDF a good starting point.

In this post though, we’ll take a closer look at the goodies v11 brings to users of both the Server and Service Provider Editions of the popular archiving software.

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5 Essential ‘Tune-up’ Tips for Your MailStore Server

June 14, 2017October 19, 2018 / neilzensoftware / Leave a comment

We love the fact MailStore is such a versatile beast.

It’s able to work with pretty much every mail platform on the market and satisfy the vast majority of requirements users throw at it.

However, if you’ve got a large mail server running multiple jobs, or lots of hosted mail accounts, for example, it’s possible at some point that you could find yourself pushing the limits of your hardware or bandwidth.

Optimising it isn’t difficult and largely boils down to how fast and how often you need your new email added to the archive. The temptation when setting it up for the first time is to opt for the ‘as fast as possible’ approach, when in reality you may be hammering your resources unnecessarily.

In this post, I’ll look at that and provide some simple tips for optimising your MailStore installation around your business needs.

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MailStore Service Provider Edition (SPE) – New Simplified Pricing Model

June 12, 2017July 31, 2017 / steelsnaps / Leave a comment

Almost exactly three years after its release and with 320 service providers under their belts, MailStore today introduce a new and simplified price model for the Service Provider Edition of their popular email archiving software for Office365, Exchange, MDaemon and other mail platforms.

The changes will be welcome news if you’re an IT support company wanting to ‘dip your toes’ in the services market without a large upfront commitment. Plus existing customers should be pleased to see improved margins as a result of lower ongoing costs too.

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How to Enable Searching Within Attachments – MailStore Server

June 7, 2017April 25, 2018 / neilzensoftware / Leave a comment

Straight out of the box, when you perform searches of your archived email as a MailStore user, it looks for your keywords in the header, body and subject of your messages. What you may not know, however, is that it also has the ability to search within some attachment types too if you enable the feature.

I’ve found this to be incredibly helpful when looking back over conversations with customers, helping me find invoice or project references for example, and I’m sure you’ll find it useful in your working day too.

Attachment searching is actually enabled by default, but it’s limited to only .txt and .HTML file extensions, so you’re not using its full potential.

In this short post, I’ll show you how to enable the feature and get MailStore to re-index your historic email so it works for that too.

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98.9% of Customers Recommend MailStore Server For Email Archiving

February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 / steelsnaps / Leave a comment

The team at German developer MailStore GmbH have again been busy grilling a little over 1000 of their beloved customers for honest feedback on their products, customer service, and support, in the bi-annual MailStore satisfaction survey.

The results (thankfully!) were really good. So good in fact, that they’ve pulled out all the stops, and celebrated with a rather snazzy infographic to highlight their impressive achievements and to give you a warm, fuzzy glow if you’re a MailStore Server, Home, or Service Provider customer.

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New: MailStore Server v10 – The Most Secure Version Yet

November 30, 2016December 5, 2016 / steelsnaps / Leave a comment

In the first major release since the company’s acquisition by backup giant Carbonite, MailStore’s development team today bring us the most secure version we’ve seen to date of their popular archiving software.

Against a backdrop of increased Internet crime and social engineering threats, we see the German development team really zero in on security enhancements in this latest release – while continuing to make life easier for administrators.

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Get Better MailStore Email Alerts Using This Powershell Script

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 / neilzensoftware / Leave a comment

better-mailstore-email-alerts Last year I wrote this article that described how you could use a combination of MailStore email archiver’s auditing features, the Windows task manager and a PowerShell script to send you email alerts in the event an archiving job failed.

This worked well but it was a little on the keen side, occasionally being triggered by a job failing that would actually just go on to run fine again shortly afterwards.

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MailStore Server 9.5 Now Available – Features Support for Exchange 2016

November 11, 2015November 16, 2015 / steelsnaps / Leave a comment

BackupAssist v9.0

Never ones to be caught napping, German developer MailStore today announced the release of version 9.5 of MailStore Server, which provides the leading email archiving solution with full support for Microsoft Exchange 2016.

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EXPIRED: 50% off MailStore Archiver when Moving to MDaemon from Exchange 2003

September 25, 2015January 10, 2017 / steelsnaps / Leave a comment

MailStore Promotion

In a recent blog post I talked about how MailStore can help manage and speed up the unenviable task of migrating all of your historic Exchange 2003 email to MDaemon Messaging Server.

The point at which you’re moving email platform is ideal to be introducing an archiving solution like MailStore. Primarily because it will aid with the migration process itself, but also because it will manage your mailbox sizes on an ongoing basis too.

With this in mind, we’re offering a very healthy 50% off new MailStore licences to Exchange 2003 owners who are purchasing a new MDaemon licence of any size.

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MailStore v9.2 – More relaxed archiving, better support for Office 365 and MDaemon

June 16, 2015July 13, 2015 / steelsnaps / Leave a comment

Today sees the latest point release in the roadmap of German developer MailStore, and in addition to a long list of fixes there are a couple of interesting new developments which have caught our collective Zen Software eye.