Mar 3 2009

Sayonara e-mail

Posted by Paul Banco at 2:14 PM
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So today I decided that it was time to finally give both Outlook and Exchange a rest. I grouped my email messages in Outlook by date, held the shift key and pressed delete. I could hear my processor and drive crunching as Outlook was trying to delete 465,000-plus messages from as far back as 2005. Now let me tell you this, there have been many times where I needed to use the built-in (and brutally slow) search feature within Outlook to find specific emails.  I am sure you have done this yourself on many occasions. 

So given my dependence on email and the treasure trove of information and intelligence stored in it, why would I want to delete this business life line? 

Ever since the launch of MXsense email archiving, I have become less fixated on managing my inbox within Outlook. With MXsense, I have the ability to instantly perform split-second key word searches within emails, and it has made my life much easier.  

To date our organization has more than 4million emails stored in the MXsense archive and I can search through and find each one of them faster than Outlook.  The litigious,  SUE-CITY that we live in today has also dictated the fact that we should keep our email communications for some time in the event that a certain email comes to question. 

Without MXsense, deleting nearly a half a million email messages from my inbox would not be an option. Ever!.Yeah I am sure I could have done some housekeeping, I could have sat there and broke them down into 2 gigabyte PST files to export (yet another thing to manage).  I could have probably gone through them and tried to figure out what was important and what was not, but in reality I simply don’t have the time to waste on email management, hence the reason why I use MXsense. 

If you want to check it out, MXsense offers the first 10GB for free (no obligations and no strings attached). If your organization is running Microsoft Exchange, learn more about this MXsense offer here

 

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Exchange Server Support

Exchange Server Support wrote on 08/28/09 7:27 PM

Instant Search of email is the best I would agree.

Is your search function still instant as the individual storage grows?
What is the biggest mailbox your company has archived?
Paul Banco

Paul Banco wrote on 08/31/09 8:46 AM

Is your search function still instant as the individual storage grows?
>> As with any DB you may see a little difference, nothing that would hinder your productivity, however I would not expect you to see a difference until you hit the 20TB mark. The database is always being optimized to deliver the best performance.

What is the biggest mailbox your company has archived?
>> We have MB in upwards of 30tb

Please feel free to contact me directly with any more questions
Rapid Share

Rapid Share wrote on 02/03/10 8:54 AM

it was expected...evolution so to say!:))) have not tried MXsense myself so far, but will do it asap.

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