List of email archive software
This article provides a list of software products and cloud-based services used for email archiving.
Email archiving has several objectives: long-term preservation of knowledge, regulatory compliance, legal protection, etc. Those different goals may call for different solutions. For example, the preservation of historical records may require a one-time migration (change of format) and storage, while regulatory compliance generally calls for the systematic and continuous archival of messages, using a solution that provides storage and retrieval of email over extended time periods.
Different products have been developed to meet those needs. They may be offered as a standalone computer appliance (possibly in the form of a virtual machine), as installable software that can be deployed on the user's premises, or as a cloud-based service. Those products may perform compression, de-duplication, encryption, indexing and advanced searching. They may work with a variety of email data sources (email systems and email storage file formats) and they may also support other types of messaging systems such as social media or instant messaging. Additionally, several collaborative software products (which commonly have messaging components) can also archive the data that they manage; however, those systems are not listed here since they generally do not archive third-party email data.
Components
In addition to a backup system, several other components are necessary for a useful email archiving system:
- Message header/metadata.
- Message body and related document attachments.
- Search and retrieval.
- Efficient storage.
- Reliable gathering of email flow.
- Policy enforcement, such as retention policy.
- Compliance certification.
Products and services
- ArcMail VM Archiving Software
- Aloaha FindMail.eMail
- Barracuda ArchiveOne and Message Archiver
- CGS Unlimited Mailbox
- Dell EMC SourceOne
- Enkive (Affero GPL)
- Exclaimer Mail Archiver
- Feith Mail iQ
- Fookes Software Aid4Mail[1][2]
- Gaggle K-12 Email Archiving Solutions and Authority Archiving & Backup
- GFI Archiver
- Global Relay Archive for Email
- Intradyn Email Archiver
- Jatheon Ergo Mail
- MailStore[1]
- netCore Emergic MailArray
- Netmail Archive
- Palmer Andersen Email Archiver Pro
- Piler (GPLv3)
- Proofpoint Information archiving
- [Smarsh] Email archiving
- SonaSoft SonaVault and SonaCloud
- Sonian View Archive
- Stimulus MailArchiva Community edition (GPLv2) and Enterprise edition[1]
- Tangent DataCove
- Techne-Comm Mailsafe
- Thexyz Email Archiving
- Veritas Enterprise Vault[1]
- Waterford Technologies MailMeter
- X KEY FileConverter Pro
- NAA Xena[1][2] (GPLv3)
See also
- Email archiving
- Electronic discovery
- Electronic message journaling
- File archive
- Message transfer agent
- Comparison of mail servers
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Prom, Christopher J. (December 2011), Preserving Email (PDF), DPC Technology Watch Reports (11-01), U.K.: Digital Preservation Coalition, doi:10.7207/twr11-01, ISSN 2048-7916
- 1 2 Adgent, Nancy; Schmitz Fuhrig, Lynda (2008), Evaluation of tools (PDF), Sleepy Hollow, NY and Washington DC: CERP (the Collaborative Electronic Records Project)