Overview

Mail Attender for Exchange is a highly scalable content management tool that automates the scheduling of common policies in multiple information stores. Mail Attender streamlines the management process to effectively address issues relating to policy enforcement, Outlook PST management, corporate email compliance and storage.

Features

Policy Enforcement
• Enforce policies within PST files (including those on users' local hard drives), mailboxes and public folders
• Create rules for managing PST files and mailboxes on a group, user or individual basis
• Manage legal, regulatory and corporate email compliance needs.
• Query Active Directory for mailbox resources
• Functionality is transparent to end-users with no disruption of email service

PST Administration
• Locate all PST files (network and desktop)
• Report on PST files and their location
• Access and manage content within desktop and network PST files
• Export information out of PST Files
• Enforce corporate policies within PST file and mailboxes files concurrently

Content Administration
• Manage mailbox and PST data based upon actions such as delete, move, export, copy, forward, replace and change status
• Customizable rule criteria includes: keywords, age, size, name, date, type, status and wildcards
• Powerful searching of message subject, body and attachments
• Immediately locate and eliminate all known virus infected attachments
• Search recovered items folders (dumpsters)

Storage Management
• Seamlessly examine the growth rate of desktops, servers and the enterprise
• Size and age policy enforcement eliminates files overusing space
• Zip large attachments
• Eliminate non-business and expired data
• Copy or archive individual public folder branches for easy recovery

Usage & Reporting
• Extensive statistical reporting of mailboxes, PST files and public folders
• Collect specific usage data to make informed decisions
• Report on age, size and content of messages (such as: attachments, users, folders or servers)
• Measure space utilization and reclamation statistics
• Email, share and post reports automatically
• Alert administrators and users to utilization limits and problems
• Warn users of flagged items of concern

Data Transfer & Migration
• Simple, secure data transfer between any email store (mailbox, PST, Public Folder)
• Use policies to manage and move data between email stores
• Migrate data from one store type to another

Requirements

Mail Attender was designed to be as non-invasive as possible and can be installed on any network-enabled machine.

Architecture
• Works with Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007
• Installation not required on the location of the information store (except when managing Outlook PST files on desktops)
• Works with Outlook 98 or higher
• Smooth, efficient communication between the master service and the client processing engines
• Data maintained in an ODBC compliant database

Systems Requirements
• Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista
• Microsoft' .NET Framework 2.0 (installed automatically as needed)
• MDAC 2.7
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
• Outlook 98, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007 or Exchange Server
• Approx. 50MB footprint on installation
• Allocate additional space for the growth of the database
• MSMQ (if synchronizing with other installations)