New MailStore Corporate Design

Today we have launched our new website presenting the new MailStore corporate design. The key element of the optimized internet presence is the new company logo – which comes with a clarity of  shape, a dynamic designing and the catchy MailStore colour scheme. Take a look at www.mailstore.com and enjoy! We also would appreciate your feedback.

But the MailStore webpage is not only offering a new design, but also optimized content and a user-friendly structure. New whitepapers are available as well as  technical background information. The access to the website is possible by choosing a certain product – or solution-oriented: Single market segments are focussed as well as the most important fields of application for an email archiving software.

And what was the reason for creating a new MailStore online-world? Our CEO Tim Berger points out: „The email archiving sector is a rapidly growing market. Our sales figures are developing very well. We are now targeting Asia and the North-American markets. Regarding this we created the new look-and-feel.“

The clear and contemporary design, the high usability structure and the new content are now online following www.mailstore.com.

Email Archiving as Protection Against Data Loss within Companies: Five Scenarios

In the IT environment at companies of all sizes, emails can get lost for many reasons every day. The five most common scenarios are:

• Users delete emails accidentally or intentionally, for instance, employees often delete their entire inbox when they leave the company.
• Mailbox limits force users to delete their emails or to store them as PST files.
• Emails can also be lost due to incomplete data backup – for instance, when emails are deleted before they are backed up for the first time.
• Emails can be lost because PST files are corrupt or often not backed up.
• Emails are in many cases distributed across different systems, servers, email programs, or external mailboxes. Over the years, this decentralized data storage can gradually lead to data loss.

For companies, the loss of emails means not only the loss of important information, but also the loss of productivity. Employees need fast, easy, and, above all, complete access to the information contained in their emails in order to work efficiently on a daily basis.

The centralized archiving of all emails within a company is an effective means of protection against data loss. The archiving process can be set up in such a way that all existing emails and all future incoming and outgoing emails can be archived automatically. In this way, users can neither change nor delete emails before they are archived.

No Mailbox Limits and PST Files Needed

With archiving, mailbox limits are no longer necessary. The archiving solution can delete emails over a certain age from the mailboxes, so that the data volume on the email server is maintained at a constant level. At the same time, users still have guaranteed access to all of their emails through the archive (e.g., directly from Microsoft Outlook).

Generally considered a special challenge for administrators, PST files can also be archived and removed afterward. Since mailbox limits are unnecessary in an email archiving scenario, PST files are no longer required for storing emails outside of the mailboxes.

A solution such as MailStore Server makes it possible to archive emails from one source–or many different email systems. In this way, emails from heterogeneous IT landscapes, which have often grown over the course of many years, can also be archived centrally.

deepinvent now is MailStore Software GmbH

Today former deepinvent changed its company name into MailStore Software GmbH. Besides the new name there are no other changes at all: the company will remain involved in the email archiving market and MailStore Server and MailStore Home will remain the flagships in its portfolio. Particulary after 2011 being the economically best year in corporate history it was not far to focus on branding from now on. With the harmonization of “brand” and “corporate identity”  the new year starts as lively as it will continue with lots of promising steps in the making.

New MailStore Home Manual

As a part of our substantial help resources today we released our new MailStore Home Manual. Now every friend of our email archiving solution for private use is able to get to know the full details: For example about installation steps, personalization, archiving from several sources,  the export from an archive and how to efficiently browse through all stored email.

In eight very coherent chapters one can read about the basics of email archiving as well as practical knowledge like “Archiving from IMAP, POP3 or Microsoft Exchange server” or “Starting an Archiving Profile from within MailStore Home”. Start reading now and benefit from the new:

MailStore Home Manual

IceWarp and Kerio Connect Support by MailStore Server is coming soon

Comparable to MailStore‘s „First-Class“-Support for Exchange and the MDaemon Messaging Server soon another two Email-Servers will be supported directly: The IceWarp Mail Server as well as Kerio Connect (former Kerio MailServer). Hand in hand with the producers currently the MailStore-Team works at full speed on the integration of the therefore required features. Most likely up to the release of the next MailStore Server version this process will be finished.

Indeed it is possible to reliably archive email from Icewarp and Kerio Connect with MailStore Server 6 so far. For Kerio Connect MailStore even offers an official Implementation Guide. But in future the MailStore Server support of both platforms will be much more comfortable:

• User Synchronization – the user databases of the email server and MailStore’s will be synchronized
• Archiving of more than one mailbox in a single step – that allows a complete archiving of all existing mailboxes without providing each user account information
• Archiving all emails in full immediately while sending and receiving

MailStore will provide separate archiving profiles for both email servers.

IceWarp MailServer has been developed ten years ago and today is used as an email server solution in many  small and medium-size businesses. Beyond that the current IceWarp Server 10 comes with Groupware-, VoIP- and Instant Messaging functionalities.
Kerio Connect also is an established combination of a Mail- and Groupware-Server.  Likewise for ten years Kerio Technologies is developing and distributing their products.

Exchange 2010 and Email Archiving

A few days ago James Steel form UK’s Zen Software blogged about 10 reasons to choose MailStore over Exchange 2010 archiving. To be honest finally he gave his readers 13 examples of differences between these two important opportunities to archive company emails. He did so to help people currently weighing up the various archiving options available. And to to avoid common misunderstandings as that there are no needs to use an external archiving solution – since Microsoft’s Exchange Server has a built-in feature with its latest versions.

Furthermore we want to recommend to visit Zen Software’s YouTube channel. They are always hard at work to provide their customers and all people interested with helpful tutorials – not at least about MailStore Server.

New MailStore Home 5 Email Archiving, Backup and Migration Software For Free

We today announce the release of MailStore Home 5, the most user-friendly version of our free email archiving, backup and migration software for personal use. Following more than 1,500,000 free downloads of MailStore Home to date, we responded to consumer feedback by introducing new sought-after features to MailStore Home 5 – giving users peace of mind that their emails are protected and secure.

Key updates to MailStore Home 5 include:

• Portable Archiving/Archive to USB: MailStore Home 5 can now be used on any USB drive, creating a portable email archive for quick access on-the-go without installation
• Auto Configuration of Settings: Before the archiving process, MailStore Home 5 automatically recognizes email account settings based on each email address, ensuring a seamless archiving experience
• New User Interface: MailStore Home 5 offers a re-designed, modern user interface that is highly intuitive and makes archiving easier than ever

More and more consumers are relying on free webmail services that do not provide users with any kind of backup system for important personal emails. One of the worst feelings is the panic that sets in when your email provider goes down and you realize you may have lost your emails forever. Our new MailStore Home 5 software helps users gain independence and avoid that anxiety, giving any consumer a straightforward, practical way to backup all of their emails in seconds – free of charge.

In addition to its new features, MailStore Home 5 continues to offer email and webmail users a wide variety of email archiving, backup and migration tools, including:

• Full Email Backup Capability: Consumers can backup all of their emails and folders locally to their computer, avoiding potential loss either through incomplete backups or security flaws at a webmail provider. Supported email archiving sources include any POP3 or IMAP mailbox, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, Microsoft Exchange Server, Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
• Migration and Export Functionality: Don’t get locked into one email provider for a lifetime – MailStore helps users efficiently export their inbox and migrate from one email service to another, letting consumers switch email providers at any time for added independence
• Full Text Search of Email Archives: Trying to find that attachment that seems to have disappeared? With this tool, MailStore Home users can search through hundreds of emails and attachments in their archives in mere seconds

Download MailStore Home 5

Gold award for MailStore Server

MailStore Server 6 today won a Gold Award by the leading Exchange resource site MSExchange.org. In a detailed review Exchange MVP J. Peter Bruzzese stated he “liked Mail Store Server a lot”. Because he felt “it was incredibly easy-to-use, extremely flexible, reasonably priced and well supported” the highest category of praise was given.

Bruzzese even pointed out that MailStore Server is a solution which might be preferred over the Exchange 2010 built-in archive features. “With MailStore Server Single Instance Storage remains and it will reduce the storage requirements.” Further lauding statements: Mr. Bruzzese doesn’t think “the installation could have gone any smoother” and liked the well structured server configuration side. Besides the compliance options the author especially refers to the information provided online as the manual, implementation guides and lots of articles. He was “impressed with the extent of the Help available online”.

MailStore CEO Tim Berger is most notably proud of his support team. In the review this part of the solution package is honorably mentioned by Mr. Bruzzese: “As for support, as already mentioned, I felt the online documentation and Help structure was enough for me to get MailStore Server up and running without any additional support.  I did reach out for assistance from the company because I had a question and they responded immediately and pointed me in the right direction.” So he “felt confident giving MailStore Server the Gold Award it deserved.”