Granted I have the Enterprise Edition but the PST importer chugged away at a folder with hundreds of PSTs and > 180GB of mail and the only problem was the occasional corrupt message in a specific PST that had to be deleted.
- Andy O. ________________________________________ From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email archiving solution without Exchange Well that's interesting news. The SIS issue would still kill it for me (printing company, and many customers simply can't or won't transfer files any other way), but the trouble with AD integration was another big problem. Have you ever run into issues with the import utility? IIRC the one that gave me all the trouble was the one that fills the Mailarchiva store with information from an existing PST. It would run once fine, then it would crash on subsequent attempts unless I restarted the computer. Thanks, RS On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists <li...@levelfive.us> wrote: Im running mailarchive free for a pretty big shop @ 200gb datastores, and it works well. We have it running with LDAP/AD on a 2003 domain and now on a 2008 domain, and were able to make AD groups and put users/mgrs in them. I like GFI better but for free mailarchiva worked pretty good the few places I installed it. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email archiving solution without Exchange I used the free version of Mailarchiva for about a month or so to get a feel for it. I have to agree that the search is lightning fast, but the free version is too crippled to be of use to an org of more than a few users. The main reasons I passed on it in production were: 1) The import utility kept crashing. I couldn't ever get it to run more than once in a row without dying the second time. 2) The LDAP/AD integration just flat didn't work. It may be because it isn't supported on the free version, but the documentation says different things in different places about whether it should/will. 3) Because the AD integration didn't work, I could not set up very granular controls on who could see or do what. I also would have had to maintain a user database on the Mailarchiva server itself in addition to AD. 4) The final, huge killer is that there isn't any sort of SIS/deduplication built in to the free version. For us, that would make our storage requirements astronomical for the type of hardware I have available to run it on. I think the paid version supports some sort of SIS at the attachment level. I mostly liked what I saw, but the paid version isn't an option for me at the moment, and the free version wasn't full-featured enough. If it matters, I ran it on Linux. RS On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Andy Ognenoff <andyognen...@gmail.com> wrote: I've had really good luck with Mailarchiva (has an open-source version). It works with any POP/IMAP server that can copy all messages to a mailbox or Exchange and can run on Windows, Linux, Solaris (I have it on Windows.) The searching is very fast. I have the Enterprise Edition and when I called for support (on setup) I talked directly to the developers. Also has a utility for importing from PST files - which was really helpful as that was our "archiving" solution previously. Soooo much better now and has already been worth it since we had some discovery requests. http://www.mailarchiva.com/ - Andy O. >-----Original Message----- >From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] >Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:03 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: Email archiving solution without Exchange > >All > >Looking for an email-server-with-archiving solution that isn't MS Exchange >with >something like the Sunbelt Email Archiver. Thoughts and ideas welcome, but >now >that email is legally a "business document", it needs to be archived just >like >any other document. There are a number of Exchange-specific email >archiving >systems, I'm just looking for something that will work for clients who >can't or >won't pay the Microsoft Tax for Exchange. > >TIA > >Angus > > > >~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
