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taropatch
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 Posted - 07 October 2004 : 17:11:32
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Anyone have an idea on how to back up email incoming/outgoing? We have a small firm - only 8 people but need to store email backups for compliance/regulatory issues.
Right now most of us use POP3 mail accounts provided by our webhost. Would it be better to get a server and host our own mail. Would that help? I need to save incoming and outgoing email separately from the end users and am not sure how to do this. 
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. |
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Podge
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-gary
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Posted - 07 October 2004 : 18:39:22
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| MailEssentials is an awesome program that does that and a lot more. They have a freeware version, but I don't know what's available in it, but at $315 for 25 users, you can't beat the price for what it does. You will need to have your own server running IIS SMTP and an email server. I use Mail Enable also, great program. http://www.gfi.com/mes/ |
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taropatch
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Posted - 07 October 2004 : 23:15:35
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Great links. Thanks guys. So would I use MailEnable instead of MS Exchange?
And -gary, you're using Mail Enable and then MailEsentials on top of that for spam filtering and email archiving?
I hope it's not too hard to DIY but an outsourced service is $2000 setup plus about $900 per year. To me, that money can be better spent. If I do it myself, is it difficult to administer? Am I in over my head? |
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Podge
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-gary
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Posted - 08 October 2004 : 11:24:23
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| I use Mailenable as my POP and SMTP server for my email clients. My incoming and outgoing SMTP use the IIS SMTP service with MailEsentials and MailSecurity. For myself, this is a great combination. I run the GFI stuff on one IP and Mailenable on another on the same Win2003 box. Mailenable only allows SMTP transactions from authenticated clients and the rest of the world talks to the GFI filters. Mailenable is a great product, but all the plugins you can find would never match what the GFI stuff can do out of the box. It's amazing the number of security features those products have built into them. Like I said though, I'm not sure what the freeware version supports, so if you looking for a free solution, you might want to check that out first, but even for $315, it's a deal. |
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taropatch
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 08 October 2004 : 16:04:40
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| Do you both use the free Mailenable? Just curious how the web-based function is. |
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-gary
Development Team Member
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Posted - 09 October 2004 : 00:21:05
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| I use the free version, and sadly it's not an option. I'm looking to purchase the Pro version just for that capability instead of implementing something like SquirrelMail. |
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Podge
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Gremlin
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Posted - 09 October 2004 : 08:07:32
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I brought DWMail a while back for use on my reseller servers and I've been quite impressed considering it cost <$40
http://www.dominion-web.com/products/dwmail/
Mailenable I've not had a single problem with so far it seems pretty stable. |
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Gremlin
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taropatch
Average Member
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Posted - 11 October 2004 : 10:05:42
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Mailenable is instead of MS Exchange, right? Do you choose one over the other because of cost and features?
If I get Small Business Server, I think it comes with Exchange? So maybe then I would just purchase MailEsentials for the archiving and spam filtering. |
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