I'm running MailStore on a Win7 Pro PC. I've set it up to archive to its local hard drive but you could setup the archive to be any location. I backup the archive location every night.
---------------------- 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 11:22:15 -0600 Subject: Re: ArcMail? I understand, but the free lacks this ability. Do you archive to a central storage location? Roger Wright ___ "The internet is a great way to get on the net." – Bob Dole On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Bob Hartung <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "auto-archiving". > > In MailStore, I've configured it to archive anything in the user's mailbox > (except Trash) every night. Every night, any e-mails that reach 2 years old > are removed from the mailserver (we use KerioMail). To me, that's as > automated as it gets. > > Granted, if Mailstore integrated directly into the mail client, that would > be great but it hasn't been a problem for our users. > > ---------------------- > > 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 10:38:23 -0600 > Subject: Re: ArcMail? > > 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 > > ~ 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
