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 […]
Monitoring MailVault’s email storage efficiency
We already know that organizations using MailVault for email archiving and eDiscovery, are benefiting immensely from the storage efficiency of MailVault’s intelligent archive store. Just how much that benefit is, is now clearly visible in the new Storage reports, available in MailVault since version 3.4.0. (To view the reports, from the main navigation bar, go […]
What’s new in the MailVault v3 series?
We’ve been silent on the blog for a while now, but the engine room has been buzzing with activity. 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). v3.0.x New restyled user-interface with […]
MailVault on Windows XP Pro (with Service Pack 3)
MailVault is light enough to run on Microsoft Windows XP Pro to backup and archive email. 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. […]
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 […]
Mail Archiving: Why your Organization needs it?
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 […]
Archiving Email from Postfix into MailVault
So you run Postfix and want to have a central backup of all your email. With MailVault, it’s easy. Let’s assume the following setup: Company domain is example.com Postfix is running on one server MailVault is running on another server There are two basic approaches to archiving all email from Postfix into MailVault: Postfix stores a […]
How to backup and archive email into MailVault
MailVault can backup and archive email in a number of ways. 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. In […]
Restoring Email from the MailVault archive
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. Let’s show you why MailVault is excellent! 🙂 So you have millions of messages in your MailVault archive. There are basically two ways to retrieve […]