Last week Neil and I traded our keyboards and mice for a transit van filled with exhibition equipment, half a tonne of assorted promotional items and a rainy afternoon on the M4. Our mission, to capture the attentions of a good chunk of the 12,500 attendees to InfoSecurity Europe and talk to them about our core products, BackupAssist, MailStore and MDaemon.
We're but a few weeks away from the annual industry pilgrimage to Earls Court for the biggest of the IT and security shows in this country, InfoSecurity Europe. Each year IT professionals (and the not-so) gather at InfoSec to take in keynote talks from industry experts, strengthen relationships with customers and suppliers, keep an eye on the competition and of course, pick up plenty of promotional tat for the kids.
This year will be slightly different however, as visitors will notice that the show's noticeably better than previous ones thanks to the addition of the Zen Software stand in the new exhibitor area. It's possible I'm overestimating the impact we'll have but in any case, we're genuinely pleased to be a part of the show and that we'll be down there unashamedly flogging our wares in our compact but charming booth (K94). 
One of the things I like about MailStore is the simplicity with which local users can be managed, so I wanted to take a moment to provide you with an overview of the various options available to you in this area.
Before I start, I should point out, that for each member of staff having their email archived, an account must be created in MailStore and a user licence allocated.
One option is to create accounts manually within MailStore, entering the relevant information for each, which will typically include passwords, email addresses and access rights. This works perfectly well for smaller installations, but when dealing with more than a handful of user accounts it does start to make more sense to consider synchronising your MailStore user list with an external user directory service.
MailStore "Home" has been gaining some real momentum globally as a great little solution for single users who want to archive their mail securely.
Following more than 1,500,000 free downloads of MailStore Home to date, German developer deepInvent have responded to consumer feedback and introduced a range of new and sought-after features to MailStore Home 5 which went live today on their site.
>>> Downloaded MailStore Home version 5.0 here <<<
(please note that Zen Software are unable to offer support on MailStore Home at this time)
Exciting stuff! One of the leading Exchange resource sites today published a glowing review of MailStore giving it the highest category of praise and their coveted Gold award.
>> READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE <<
The author J. Peter Bruzzes, who's an MVP and director of Exclusively Exchange gave a summary of the install process in his test lab environment. Not that we had any doubts, but we were extremely pleased to read his subsequent feedback which included quotes such as "I liked MailStore Server. I liked it a lot because it was incredibly easy-to-use, extremely flexible, reasonably priced and well supported".
Our fantastic offer of 50% off MailStore if you already own a competing product was due to end on 31st August. However we received some good news this morning -...
