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. […]
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 […]
User Management in MailVault
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. 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 […]
Searching through the MailVault email archive
Our approach to MailVault’s search functionality is a little like that of Google Search. Keep it simple and return relevant results. Most times it should “just work”. When you need to consciously slice, dice and zoom in through the clutter, the following information and hints will help you to make the most of MailVault’s simple […]
First steps after installing MailVault
There is a book that goes by the name of “What to say, after saying Hello” (or something like that!). A WHOLE BOOK? I guess human beings are complex creatures. Fortunately, interacting with MailVault isn’t anywhere near as complex. Inspite of all it’s power and flexibility, it is simple to use. For a new […]
