Im running mailarchive free for a pretty big shop @ 200gb datastores, and it works well. We have it running with LDAP/AD on a 2003 domain and now on a 2008 domain, and were able to make AD groups and put users/mgrs in them. I like GFI better but for free mailarchiva worked pretty good the few places I installed it.
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email archiving solution without Exchange 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/> ~
