Mail Archival Solution In-house
Email archiving provides lots of benefits to your company. Piler is a feature rich open source email archiving solution, and a viable alternative to commercial email archiving products
Piler has a nice GUI written in PHP supporting several authentication methods (AD/LDAP, SSO, Google OAuth, 2 FA, IMAP, POP3).
- Archives all incoming, outgoing and internal emails
- Define archiving rules
- Attachment de-duplication
- Message de-duplication
- Archive compression (±60%, ZIP) & encryption (AES-128)
- Multiple disk/volume support
- Removable disk support
- Auto volume creation per month/quarter/year/size
- In built recovery queue
- Live and scheduled archive backup
- Data stored in compound archive files (easy to manage)
- Search entire company, department, user emails
- Easy search for beginners
- Expert search using query language
- Save and restore search queries
- Automated searching per time period; results delivered by email
- Infinite scrolling across all archived information
- Search inside Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, RTF, ZIP, tar, gz and Open Office attachments
- Time machine - View change in folder structure over time
- Import and display PST folders
- Export emails en bulk to file
- Restore emails en bulk to mail server
- Print emails en bulk
- Delete emails en bulk (authorized user only)
- View emails and header information
- Social charts (depicts relations between users) -
- Advanced statistics over selected period (e.g. attachment size/type etc.)
- Message conversation threads
- Define retention policies
- Index and display journal envelopes
- Generate comprehensive journal reports in PDF/TIFF format
- Auto & Manual Tagging - Group emails into cases and recall as needed
- Legal Hold - Protect emails from being deleted by retention policies
- Search and retrieval using mobile devices (e.g. iPad friendly)
- Inbuilt SMTP server
- Inbuilt Sendmail / Postfix milter server
- Inbuilt POP / IMAP client
- Web services API
- Search through detailed audit logs
- Email status alerts
- Real-time status info
- Real-time status charts
- Standard JMX monitoring interface
- Message attachment stubbing -
- Access archive from Outlook (Outlook plugin)
- Multiple Exchange servers
- Multiple Exchange stores
- Direct import from MS Exchange, Google Apps, EML, MBOX, MSG, PST
- Export to EML, MSG, PDF, TIFF and PST (with folder structures)
- Export search results to CSV format
- Fast search (half a billion messages < less than 3 sec)
- Fast archiving (greater 200 messages/sec)
- Scales to 60,000 users and beyond
- Clustering & HA
- Route traffic across multiple servers
- Deploy redundant servers as needed
- Passwords hashed & encrypted
- Role based access control
- Support for TLS where possible
- Inbuilt certificate management
- Antivirus scanning
- Multiple language support (English, German, Russian, etc.)
- Internationalized indexing and searching
- Easy setup & configuration
- Runs on most operating systems
- Use of open standards, no proprietary formats
- Automatic updates
- Appliance mode (define mount points, network settings, etc.)
- Online help
- Native Multi-tenant (for ISP hosting)
- On Premise and Cloud Available
- Tried and tested on Vmware