I recently installed the freeware version of MailStore on my home box. Looks pretty good, but it lacks auto-archiving and Outlook integration.
We have about 250 mailboxes, many PSTs (gotta get rid of those!), and at least 350GB in the Exchange DB. Roger Wright ___ "The internet is a great way to get on the net." – Bob Dole On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Bob Hartung <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using MailStore ( www.mailstore.com ) for about 1.5 years and it's > a great product. We have 75 e-mail accounts and we currently have 17.5 GB of > archived storage. > > Users perform their own searches which are very fast using either the client > software or web interface. > > Runs on Win2000 and above. Easy to administer. Relatively inexpensive. > > I've got it setup to automatically archive everything and delete e-mails > from the mailserver that are older than 2 years. > > The only thing I can't address is how it scales to a large enterprise. > > ---------------------- > > Bob Hartung > Wisco Industries, Inc. > 736 Janesville St. > Oregon, WI 53575 > Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 > Fax: (608) 835-7399 > e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com > > ________________________________ > From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] > To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:42:33 -0600 > Subject: Re: ArcMail? > > Not what I was hoping to hear, but I appreciate your candor. > > > Roger Wright > ___ > > "The internet is a great way to get on the net." – Bob Dole > > > > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Ben N <[email protected]> wrote: >> oh yes.. years of experience. >> my old company bought the biggest one they had. U3120 IIRC. It was great >> that it wasn't a per user cost.. but the yearly maint fee for hardware and >> software support was alot of money. >> Once you get it loaded with years of emails.. it can be VERY slow for >> users.. like 5-10 minutes for a single search. it could be that way with >> all >> archive appliances though with millions of emails to search through. >> it's tough to say one way or another. i guess you get what you pay for. >> oh yeah the biggest problem is backup. be sure you have a ton of TBs to >> back >> it up. We were having issues with backup early on.. and then the 3ware >> raid >> controller corrupted our data... we lost data. :( We basically had to redo >> an import back from exchange to start over. I think they took steps though >> to make sure this didn't happen. it was a problem with 3ware and not their >> software. >> I don't think you'll be able to beat the price.. be sure you like that web >> interface :) Sorry to be so brief and all over the place. Let me know if >> you >> have any more questions. We bought it in 2008, and they still have it. But >> i >> think my old boss is ready to dump it because its so slow and backup is >> such >> a burden. >> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Roger Wright <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Had a luncheon demo today of the email archiving system from ArcMail. >>> I was quite impressed with the ease of setup and usability. >>> >>> Anyone have experience with the ArcMail appliances or company? >>> >>> www.arcmail.com >>> >>> >>> Roger Wright >>> ___ >>> >>> "The internet is a great way to get on the net." – Bob Dole >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to [email protected] >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
