MPP’s Compliance-Grade Archival
July 27th, 2007 by admin
What follows is a Message Partners‘ podcast covering our improved archival feature, which gives companies streamlined, easy-to-use yet compliance-grade archival. To learn more about this feature listen to the podcast or simply read the transcript below.
Tell me about MPP’s Archival feature.
MPP has a very streamlined archival solution that can be applied to any of the supported email servers that we have like Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, Exim, CommuniGate Pro, SurgeMail, or the Sun Java Systems Message Server. We can archive email to a few different formats. Either MIME files, or a MySQL database or to a standard Maildir format. Our database structure uses standard MySQL, which gives the end user access to lots of tools to scale and manage the database.
MPP has lots of macros so you can build very scalable directory infrastructures if you want to use file-based archival applications for compliance, or for just general cataloging of email. This is a big application that we’re seeing a lot of use for now, where lots of different business or school systems have very generic requirements for archival and need a very streamlined solution to perform that and MPP really fits that bill.
Most people know that once you have archival, email retrieval is also very important. Tell me about MPP’s retrieval capabilities.
MPP has a full retrieval system that is optimized for our MySQL quarantine, which we call qReview. qReview gives you access to full text searches, you can search by user, by date range, and once you have the results you can export the results to a standard MBox format which is ratable by any email client. Or you can save the email as files. But it’s a very streamlined web-based system that is very easy to use.
Compliance is clearly a major issue for email. Is MPP Archival compliance-grade and does it meet the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley.
MPP meets the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and other international standards for small to medium sized organizations. The two main requirements you need to satisfy are to not delete email, to not allow users to delete email from the archive, and some organizations need to show that a certain percentage of email is actually reviewed. MPP can do both of those tasks very easily.
We can also easily search and retrieve email and export it in case of an investigation. MPP can also, by the way, archive Microsoft Exchange email, and is very useful for those environments. So, in conclusion, MPP is compliant for small to medium sized organizations for Sarbanes-Oxley and other critical international regulations.
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