Website page number: 4.53.1
Document title: MailMeter Discovery tech docs
Author: Taken from existing website
Reviewed by: Oonagh McCutcheon
Status: Final
Email Archiving
MailMeter email archiving solutions address all of your email management needs, including storage, compliance,
reporting and policy enforcement. MailMeter captures every email that moves through your company's email
servers—incoming, outgoing and internal--and stores all emails efficiently to provide you with powerful searchand-retrieve tools, all while conserving costly storage space. Key authorized personnel will be able to drill down
on any topic or keyword for immediate monitoring of what is really going on at all levels in your company.
No longer do your employees have to manage the issues involved in archiving email messages to comply with
state and federal laws and regulations. MailMeter solutions are available to meet these needs consistently and
accurately. Your employees can be free to concern themselves with your company's bottom line.
No longer do your employees have to manage the issues involved in archiving email messages to comply with
state and federal laws and regulations. MailMeter solutions are available to meet these needs consistently and
accurately. Your employees can be free to concern themselves with your company's bottom line.
MailMeter Archive
- Capture emails to lower cost storage
Compliance, Storage Savings, E-discovery
MailMeter is a comprehensive, yet easy to use, affordable and robust email archiving solution that captures and
pre-indexes email real-time to provide a complete, unalterable and secure email archive.
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Regulatory compliance and policy enforcement
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Email storage management
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eDiscovery and litigation support
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Monitoring email
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Email records retention and retrieval
Optimize Your Email Server!
Archive from Expensive to Low Cost Storage - There is no reason to have expensive storage for emails that are
rarely accessed.
Get in Compliance - capture all messages before any user can delete them.
Reduce back up times - and potential recovery time. Users want to save every email. Use MailMeter Archive to
give them a low cost, "bottomless" mailbox with the optional MailMeter ISR, Individual Search and Retrieval.
Automatic Storage Optimization - Replace attachments on older messages using the MailMeter Storage
Manager.
No More PSTs - use MailMeter Archive as a central data repository where users can access their own email
easily. Only keep a minimal amount of email in your server.
Archive Searching
The base MailMeter Archive includes a powerful search capability to search by email address, domain, date
range, message body text, attachment text or type, and word lists using wildcard, Boolean and proximity
searching.
How MailMeter Archive Works
MailMeter Archive is a software application that runs on a Windows Server (real or virtual). It collects emails from
the standard journaling interface on your email server (Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Ipswitch IMail,
SeattleLab SLMail Pro) and deletes them when they are secured in the archive. There are options for capturing
messages from the existing mailboxes (History Capture) and from PSTs and NSFs (PST / NSF Import).
All components of a message - header, recipients, message body, and attachments are captured into the
MailMeter Archive SQL database and Archive Volumes. The SQL database must have full-text indexing
activated.
Archived messages and attachments are de-duplicated, compressed, encrypted, given GUID names then stored
in Archive Volumes (Windows folders) that can be located on any low cost, storage device - local disk, SAN,
NAS, USB, etc. The Archive Volumes are managed to a size of 4G. New ones are created automatically as
needed. Archive Volumes only need to be backed up once when they are full and closed (contents don't change).
Messages are secured and protected in the MailMeter Archive. The administrator can delete emails by date for
record retention. There is also an optional Retention Manager for a more granular control over message
destruction by mailbox and by individual messages.
Requirements
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MailMeter server
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Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64) or Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64 and R2 x64)
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CPU: 2 or 4 processors
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Memory: 4 to 8 GB
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Disk: Temporary work area = size of largest mailbox
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Disk: Archive Volumes = any local, SAN or NAS device
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SQL Server
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Windows Server 2005 or 2008
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CPU: 2 or 4 processors
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Memory: 8 to 32 GB
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Disk: Database = 40% of data collected