I used the free version of Mailarchiva for about a month or so to get a feel for it. I have to agree that the search is lightning fast, but the free version is too crippled to be of use to an org of more than a few users. The main reasons I passed on it in production were:
1) The import utility kept crashing. I couldn't ever get it to run more than once in a row without dying the second time. 2) The LDAP/AD integration just flat didn't work. It may be because it isn't supported on the free version, but the documentation says different things in different places about whether it should/will. 3) Because the AD integration didn't work, I could not set up very granular controls on who could see or do what. I also would have had to maintain a user database on the Mailarchiva server itself in addition to AD. 4) The final, huge killer is that there isn't any sort of SIS/deduplication built in to the free version. For us, that would make our storage requirements astronomical for the type of hardware I have available to run it on. I think the paid version supports some sort of SIS at the attachment level. I mostly liked what I saw, but the paid version isn't an option for me at the moment, and the free version wasn't full-featured enough. If it matters, I ran it on Linux. RS On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Andy Ognenoff <[email protected]>wrote: > I've had really good luck with Mailarchiva (has an open-source version). It > works with any POP/IMAP server that can copy all messages to a mailbox or > Exchange and can run on Windows, Linux, Solaris (I have it on Windows.) > > The searching is very fast. I have the Enterprise Edition and when I called > for support (on setup) I talked directly to the developers. > > Also has a utility for importing from PST files - which was really helpful > as that was our "archiving" solution previously. Soooo much better now and > has already been worth it since we had some discovery requests. > > http://www.mailarchiva.com/ > > - Andy O. > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] > >Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:03 PM > >To: NT System Admin Issues > >Subject: Email archiving solution without Exchange > > > >All > > > >Looking for an email-server-with-archiving solution that isn't MS Exchange > >with > >something like the Sunbelt Email Archiver. Thoughts and ideas welcome, > but > >now > >that email is legally a "business document", it needs to be archived just > >like > >any other document. There are a number of Exchange-specific email > >archiving > >systems, I'm just looking for something that will work for clients who > >can't or > >won't pay the Microsoft Tax for Exchange. > > > >TIA > > > >Angus > > > > > > > >~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
