Local e-mail backup / relay server?
Hi all!
I had a request today regarding email server - the customer asks that I find a (free if possible) solution that could backup all incomeing and outgoing emails that are sent - received from the company.
The server(s) are Windows, and the mail-service is external. I was thinking to solve this via some kind of email "proxy" or something similar, that would act as a relay between outside and inside, and that would cache all email traffic.
The reason for this move is recent legal requirement to have a backup copy of all emails sent and received.
Thanks for help, and sorry for the imprecise terminology. :-)
I had a request today regarding email server - the customer asks that I find a (free if possible) solution that could backup all incomeing and outgoing emails that are sent - received from the company.
The server(s) are Windows, and the mail-service is external. I was thinking to solve this via some kind of email "proxy" or something similar, that would act as a relay between outside and inside, and that would cache all email traffic.
The reason for this move is recent legal requirement to have a backup copy of all emails sent and received.
Thanks for help, and sorry for the imprecise terminology. :-)
ASKER
Thanks, but aren't you a bit too critical on free/GPL solutions?
I was thinking about some app I can install on my Win environment. Of course, hosted mail is great, but was thinking I could skip the "next step". We already have email hosted on Rackspace, and I was thinking about local solution.
I was thinking about some app I can install on my Win environment. Of course, hosted mail is great, but was thinking I could skip the "next step". We already have email hosted on Rackspace, and I was thinking about local solution.
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Thank you!
Depending on who is handling their mail service, that company may offer an archiving product as a part of a larger service package.
We looked into this last year and looked at a number of vendors and settled on Mimecast. They are our email filtering service for keeping out spam and spoofed email as well as email malware infections. They also offer a great archiving service where every email, whether internal or external is automatically sent to their archive repository. I have a high confidence level that should we be sued and should we have to produce an email chain of some kind, I will be able to do so.