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Discover how hosted email archiving cuts risk and improves employee productivity.
Today’s businesses are especially vulnerable to accidental email loss, compliance demands, and the threat of e-discovery. Yet these same companies often have the fewest resources for combating these risks on their own. Many businesses today are turning to email archiving services to eliminate losses.
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At this time of year, some of our readers who are back to university and colleges have set up new email accounts. Some educational institutions require this in order to broadcast messages to its students. Unfortunately, this is just another avenue that hackers / criminals can use to access the computer. Spam is not only [...]

Understand the precautions it takes to keep up with the sophisticated nature of email attacks.
More than three years after the infamous declaration from Microsoft’s Bill Gates that “spam will be solved” in 2009, unsolicited junk mail continues to bombard email servers, dumping malicious attachments, phishing lures and spam advertising for fake pharmaceuticals.
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I’m an Exchange 2007 user. It’s terrific, works great and is truly the standard by which others are judged when it comes to business email, calendaring, contacts and other key business productivity features.
Being both a Mac and a PC guy, I’ve been the tester, owner and user of a variety of different applications to interface [...]

Email presents a ubiquitous point of vulnerability. A source of incoming threats and a convenient channel for stealing sensitive data, email enables easy communication while opening organizations to organized crime, disgruntled former employees, and inadvertent data loss. Find out how you can achieve best-in-class results and learn how to:

Lower your helpdesk time
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Address email problems with full mailboxes, lost backup tapes, IT audits, records requests, and employee turnover.
This free white paper discusses the various reasons to archive email and provides guidance about how to select an appropriate archiving system. The paper covers software, SaaS and appliance solutions and provides insight into how to choose the best option [...]

With the amount of spam that finds its way into our inboxes, it is no surprise that the subject line is now the most important part of a message. Not only does the recipient use the subject line to decide whether you message is spam, they may also use it to file the message and [...]

Over 15 million Exchange mailboxes worldwide have benefited from the power of MessageStats. Learn why it’s the industry’s best messaging reporting and analysis tool.
To quickly and easily find the critical information to understand and control costs and optimize your messaging environment, nothing beats Quest MessageStats. Supported platforms include:

Microsoft Exchange
BlackBerry
SendMail/PostFix
Quest Archive Manager
OWA (Outlook Web Access)
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Exchange Server 2010 is just around the corner, and Microsoft is gearing up to present a month of webcasts starting June 1st to introduce the new version to us. The webcast schedule is below. You can get the beta of Exchange Server 2010 here.
6/1/09 - 9:00am PT: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 High Availability
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Microsoft Exchange is the world’s most widely deployed email and collaboration solution. With Exchange 2007, Microsoft continues to improve the product and push the limits of existing server and storage devices.
Download this informative best practices to learn why you must take the following into consideration for a successful Microsoft Exchange implementation:

Storage configuration: DAS vs. SAN
Sizing [...]

Over eight million people can’t be wrong! That number represents the growing number of people who use MailWasher to handle the spam problem. One of our security reviewers has used this product for almost a decade, so the recommendation for MailWasher Pro comes from years of experience with this legendary program.
MailWasher Pro is effective and [...]

I decided to test out Thunderbird today, and I have to say I am very impressed so far. I set it up with my Google Apps/Gmail account via IMAP, and it is lightning fast compared to Outlook 2007. And Thunderbird’s interface is very clean and easy to navigate. Will these impressions be enough to make [...]

One of my customers has been experiencing off-again/on-again problems with their e-mail host. Her current e-mail host has a very miserly storage quota on their POP mail accounts, which results in her maxing out and having issues receiving mail. The good news is, there are lots of options… including Google.
I did a little research on [...]

As you may have seen on Lockergnome (or heard from Chris Pirillo himself), SolarWinds just released another FREE tool — SolarWinds Exchange Monitor.
SolarWinds Exchange Monitor is a desktop dashboard that continuously monitors Microsoft Exchange servers to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. You will be able to:

Quickly identify [...]

This past weekend, I spent time setting up four new laptops for one of my business clients. Out of habit, one of the things I do when I get to the point of setting up e-mail is send test messages. I didn’t have any reason to believe that e-mail wouldn’t work, but I’m glad I [...]

Do we take email reliability/deliverability for granted? I’m talking about email that traverses the Internet (e.g. outside of internal corporate email delivery, which there should be no question about reliability).
It seems to me that I’ve had an increase in the number of complaints/reports from some of my clients about lost emails in the past [...]

Gnomie Tyler Jones writes:
I receive about 220 emails a day (I know that’s nothing compared to what you get, Chris, but it’s a lot for us normal folk), and I sometimes find it hard to manage my inbox. Over time, I’ve made these tips for managing my email more efficiently, and I thought that I [...]

Recently my Outlook 2007 connection to my Google Apps mail account became increasingly slow and sluggish, to the point of extreme frustration. Slow syncs and a general sense of bloat were ruining my experience and making it close to unusable. During email syncs my system would practically hang as Outlook churned away.
Not acceptable. I either [...]

Have you ever lost your massive email database to a hard drive crash, inadvertent deletion, program failure, or monsoonal winds? MailStore Home is a solution for people who have a need to back up their emails in a straightforward and simple fashion. It works with all POP3 and IMAP accounts (as in Gmail), as well [...]

There’s been a slight lack of specific information about the actual Gmail IMAP rollout timeframes (the phrase being thrown around - “a few days” - is sufficiently vague, yet it tends to make one think of the number “three”), as well as a lack of information about Google Apps email service and IMAP on that [...]