MailVault v3.4.10 is available. This is a significant release that enhances privacy handling in MailVault. It introduces a new user role (sub-admin) and a new user attribute (status). The sub-admin can carry out most routine administration tasks. He or she can also search the archive, but cannot view the contents of anyone else’s email. The […]
Release: MailVault v3.4.6
MailVault v3.4.6 is available. This is a minor release with a couple of small fixes and a useful enhancement. When disk space becomes critically low, MailVault will automatically stop the archiving process (including retrieving of email, if required) and send out an email alert to the administrator. The admin will need to free up space […]
IMAP Archiving (or Email Archiving for IMAP)
What is IMAP? IMAP (or IMAP4) stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and allows an email client to access email on a remote mail server. Along with POP3, it is a popular email access and retrieval mechanism. IMAP was designed basically with the idea of a ‘remote mailbox‘, which means that user’s would be able […]
MailVault on Microsoft Windows Server 2003
You can run MailVault on Windows Server 2003 to backup and archive email. However, sometimes there is an issue running MailVault on Windows 2003, caused due to some missing runtime components, which are required. MailVault will probably install cleanly, but will not load when you try to start it.[ This is a known issue and […]
Back up old, scattered Email into MailVault
When setting up email archiving for an organization, the recommended practice is to configure the mailserver to keep a copy of all email flowing through it into an “archive” account. MailVault picks up all the email from this account by using say, the POP3 protocol and does it’s archiving magic, after which the mail is […]
Using search results
Once you have the search results in front of you, what next? Well view the message(s) and confirm that you have indeed located the mail you want. If you just needed to lookup some information, then you are done. However, if you want to send the mail to yourself or someone else, then read on. […]
The need for email archival
Corporate email communication continues to grow. Over the years, email has morphed from a simple and speedy means of communication into a sort of de facto mechanism for just about anything: conversing, exchanging data, managing to-do lists and delegated tasks amongst a whole lot of other things. Often it is not the appropriate tool for […]
Introducing MailVault
MailVault is a standalone email archival product, compatible with any standards-based email server. It offers immediate benefits to organizations aware of and interested in: Security & compliance Corporate messaging surveillance An easy to use backup and restore mechanism for the entire organization’s email Hello, world… 🙂