Blog Standard – Page 8

July 24, 2013

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We’ve been silent on the blog for a while now, but the engine room has been buzzing with activity.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]This post breaks our blog-slumber and summarizes the goodness that’s gone into the MailVault v3 series, since the initial v3.0.0 release (in May 2012) up to the current v3.4.0 (July 2013).[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text] v3.0.x [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] New restyled user-interface with usability enhancements Auto-discovery of Organizations and People under the new Directory tab Instant searches from Directory (organization and people listings) New ‘Begins with’ clause in Archive Filters Minor...

January 10, 2012

by sharad

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MailVault on Windows XP Pro (with Service Pack 3)

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]MailVault is light enough to run on Microsoft Windows XP Pro to backup and archive email.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]However, if you have Service Pack 3 installed, you may face an issue running MailVault, 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.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]This is a known issue and resolving it is trivial.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]On your Windows XP Pro (with Service Pack 3) machine:[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text] Download a...

November 9, 2011

by sharad

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IMAP Archiving (or Email Archiving for IMAP)

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]What is IMAP?[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]IMAP was designed basically with the idea of a ‘remote mailbox‘, which means that user’s would be able to leave their email on the server and connect to it from anywhere.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]Some of the advantages of IMAP include:[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text] Multiple simultaneous connections...

September 6, 2011

by sharad

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MailVault on Microsoft Windows Server 2003

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]You can run MailVault on Windows Server 2003 to backup and archive email.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]This is a known issue and resolving it is trivial.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]On your Windows 2003 server:[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text] Download a small executable from the Microsoft website using this URL:http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5582 Save it anywhere and...

August 31, 2011

by sharad

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Mail Archiving: Why your Organization needs it?

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]More and more people are becoming aware of ‘email archiving’ practices. Email archiving is the process of using a software application (or service), which normally in conjunction with an email server provides a way to centrally store all of an organizations email communications. It also provides a way to search through the archived email messages quickly and easily.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="51969" img_size="full" alignment="center" eltd_css_animation=""][vc_column_text] Email, email and more email...

October 13, 2010

by sharad

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Archiving Email from Postfix into MailVault

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]So you run Postfix and want to have a central backup of all your email. With MailVault, it’s easy.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]Let’s assume the following setup:[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text] Company domain is example.com Postfix is running on one server MailVault is running on another server [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]There are two basic approaches to archiving all email from Postfix into MailVault:[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text] Postfix stores a copy of all email into a mailbox and MailVault picks it up periodically (over say POP3), or Postfix forwards a...

June 23, 2010

by sharad

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How to backup and archive email into MailVault

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]MailVault can backup and archive email in a number of ways.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]It can “pull” mail from corporate mail servers and public mail servers, parse multiple mailbox formats, pick up randomly scattered mail from the filesystem and read messages from selected email clients. MailVault can also accept email “pushed” to it via the SMTP protocol.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]In cases where there is no mail server running, the MailVault Agent installed on remote machines enables users to backup email from their email...

June 15, 2010

by sharad

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Restoring Email from the MailVault archive

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]A good archiving solution does a good job of backing up your email. An excellent archiving solution does an even better job in letting you retrieve and restore your email.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]Let’s show you why MailVault is excellent! :)[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]So you have millions of messages in your MailVault archive. There are basically two ways to retrieve the messages you are interested in.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]One-off email retrieval For one-off information search requirements, you can use the blazingly fast search to locate the...

April 2, 2010

by sharad

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User Management in MailVault

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Generally speaking, user administration tasks can be time consuming, dull and often a waste of your technical administrator’s time. User management in MailVault is designed to change that.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]A bunch of convenience features make life easy for the administrators and end-user self-service options means that your user’s can get things done, without waiting for a busy administrator to attend to them.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_single_image image="51950" img_size="full" alignment="center" eltd_css_animation=""][vc_separator type="transparent"][vc_column_text]Understanding user roles There are three types of users in MailVault. A user...

March 25, 2010

by sharad

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Back up old, scattered Email into MailVault

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]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 deleted from the archive or journal account. As an ongoing process, this is a great setup since the settings are required to be...