MPP Archive in combination with Zarafa’s Collaboration Server Offers World-Class Email Retention And eDiscovery Solution

Mailspect, together with its German distributor, 8Soft GmbH, will present MPP Archive to Zarafa’s partners and customers at Zarafa’s annual partner event, Zarafa Summer Camp, being held at the Golfhotel Krefeld, Germany on June 18th through 20th. Zarafa is the leading Open Source-based MS Exchange replacement and is used by businesses, governments, schools and not-for-profits all over the world. MPP Archive is the perfect complement to Zarafa for customers who need to be compliant with corporate and government regulations, import email from disparate legacy systems or require enterprise-grade protection from email viruses and spam.

Zarafa’s customers like Woehnstaette Krefeld Wohnungs-Aktiongesellschaft have implemented MPP to archive email and increase overall enterprise efficiency. “Combining Zarafa with MPP offers a unique and compelling collaboration solution ,” says Thomas Sprickman of 8soft. “The joint solution addresses collaboration, compliance, archive and spam filter in a way never before possible with other Linux solutions. By offering MPP, we are able to meet our customer’s exact requirements and performance criteria and thereby, increase our product and services revenue,” continues Sprickmann.

MPP levels the playing field versus MS Exchange for Zarafa’s Open Source collaboration customers by providing an extendable platform to meet virtually any email stream processing requirement. MPP has unique abilities that set it apart from other products in its class. MPP Archive provides real-time journaling from the widest variety of Open Source and proprietary email systems. In addition, with MPP Green – an architecture to efficiently import, de-dupe and store legacy email from MS Exchange, Gmail, IMAP and others – MPP Archive solves the problem of aggregating disparate email stores in one centralized, fully searchable archive. In addition, MPP Quarantine offers an ISP-grade anti-spam solution that is legendary in the Linux world and protects millions of email boxes worldwide every day.

By implementing MPP Green, mail stores can be reduced in size by more than 80% and save hardware, software, electricity and cooling costs – all good for your carbon footprint.

To download a fully configured, VMware-based virtual appliance of MPP Archive for evaluation, go to: http://www.mailspect.com/download

At the heart of MPP is our proprietary Email Stream Management technology (ESM). ESM allows administrators to track, sanitize and control the flow of email based on business requirements and external business systems. ESM is unique to MPP and allows Zarafa administrators to meet virtually any demand for email routing, tracking and compliance. ESM can be implemented through custom development services offered by Mailspect or its global network of service partners.

About Mailspect www.mailspect.com

Mailspect, Inc. based in New Rochelle, New York, is the developer of the Message Processing Platform or MPP. MPP offers clients a comprehensive and integrated suite used for email archiving, compliance and quarantine, complete with spam filters, email policy management, and email retention solutions. MPP integrates with leading anti spam and antivirus products and currently is installed in client mail systems that process billions of emails per day.

Contact Info: Paul Sterne, Chief Marketing Officer, sterne@mailspect.com

Easily and safely consolidate individual Gmail mailboxes into a single Mailspect Archive for email retention and retrieval purposes.

Responding to the overwhelming success of Gmail, Mailspect has released a new suite of tools that enables enterprises to create centralized repositories of disparate Gmail mailboxes for retention and cross-account search / retrieval purposes. Accordingly to USA Today (April 2008) Google had 91.6 million users, ranking it third behind Microsoft and Yahoo.

“Gmail is truly a terrific email product, but its free email archival and retention features are geared towards individual mailboxes and cannot consolidate multiple mailboxes into a single enterprise archive. For enterprises worldwide, this is a serious issue because governments are imposing stringent email retention and retrieval regulations that can only be met using ultra-fast centralized archives,” said Michael Katz, CEO, Mailspect.

With Mailspect Archive, it is now simple and easy to import Gmail via IMAP and create an efficient single instance mail store. All you need is the Gmail server host (imap.gmail.com), connection type and port, and your GMail username and password. Within Mailspect, you can navigate through your Gmail emails as usual; you can also see the folder structure of your Gmail inbox and from there, you can import and archive exactly the folders and/or emails that you need from a specified time period. Once archived, all of Mailspect Archive’s tamper-proof, access control, contextual routing and automatic purge features are available.

Upon imported into Mailspect Archive, your Gmail store is fully indexed for ultra-fast text search and retrieval. In addition, it can be reduced in size by up to 80% due to email and attachment de-duping as well as attachment stripping. For compliance purposes, cross-account queries based on sender, receiver, domain, content, time period and attachment can be performed. For ease of use, old auditor queries and templates can be saved for reference and reuse. Because emails are stored so that they are tamper-proof, they can be used as evidence in legal disputes and trials.

To schedule a demo of Mailspect Archive and its new suite of Gmail archiving tools, please fill out the web form at:

www.mailspect.com/demo  

or watch our Youtube video

Mailspect MPP aka Message Processing Platform Fixes Email Storage Problems Challenging Standards-Based Mail Servers

Mailspect has released a new module of MPP Archive – MPP Green –  to address email storage issues faced by standards-based mail servers.  This capability is ideal for service providers and enterprises who need to reduce storage volumes by up to 80%, provide full-text searchable email archives and increase client access speed.    MPP Green extends MPP’s real-time email archiving capabilities to IMAP email as well as email stored in standard mbox and MailDir formats.

Email volumes are exploding.  According to the Radicati Group, “E-mail Security Market, 2008-2012”, corporate e-mail is projected to increase from 156 per user/day in 2008, to 233 per user/day in 2012, or almost 50%.  Though the average email is relatively small at 25KB, large attached files such as documents, presentations, photos and videos can rapidly fill up a mailbox and cause it to crash or run slowly.

With MPP Green, MPP Archive intelligently imports IMAP and other standards-based mail stores and provides efficient single instance storage.  It de-dupes emails, strips duplicative attachments, scans for content inspection rules as well as cleanses and purges long-dated emails.  MPP Green converts fragmented mail stores to indexed, full-text searchable archives.  As such, MPP Archive can serve as the basis for email lifecycle management.

By implementing MPP Green, mail stores can be reduced in size by the following simple equation:  raw email less (the number of duplicate emails) less (the number of duplicate attachments).  Systems administrators can achieve storage reductions of more than 80% and save on hardware, middleware, electricity and cooling – all good for your carbon footprint.

In addition, MPP Green can regularly purge long-dated email from a live standards-based mail server – because the mail is backed up in the archive – and thereby reduce mailbox size which increases end-user access speed.

To download a fully configured, VMware-based virtual appliance of MPP Archive for evaluation, go to:  http://www.mailspect.com/download

About Mailspect www.mailspect.com

Mailspect, Inc. based in New Rochelle, New York, is the developer of the Message Processing Platform or MPP.  MPP offers clients a comprehensive and integrated suite of email archiving, compliance and quarantine, complete with spam filters, email policy management, and email retention solutions focused on the Open Source and Apple environments.  MPP is based on proven technology, integrates with leading anti spam and antivirus products and currently is installed in client mail systems that process billions of emails per day.

MPP is available to Federal Government and California State agencies through Aglow Technologies, Orange, California, www.aglowtechnologies.com, under GSA FSS Contract# GS-35F-0460T and California State CMAS Contract# 3-08-70-2572A, respectively

Contact Info:  Nick Herring, nherring@mailspect.com

Diehl Spedition Implements MPP Email Security and Archiving Solution

Mailspect’s Message Processing Platform Solves Freight Forwarder’s Spam and Email Archiving Issues
Diehl Spedition is a full-service international freight forwarder headquartered in Germany. In 2007, the company’s 330 employees handled 3,634 shipments per day within Germany and across Europe. The company relies on email to execute orders and shipments. The failure of an email server means lost productivity, lower revenue and potential liability claims.

In 2007, the throughput of Diehl’s email system was severely challenged as spam and malware bombarded its server, causing the server to be overwhelmed with congestion. Internal emails containing large attachments were being distributed to multiple employee mailboxes taking up enormous amounts of disk space. These twin loads were resulting in system delays and downtime.

Another problem was the lack of compliance with German email archiving regulations. Email retention is a legal requirement for all German companies.
Hermann Schnaidt, IT Manager at Diehl, defined the project objectives: (1) find a solution based on Open Source technology; (2) protect the email server from spam and malware; (3) relieve users from the nuisance and inefficiency of spam in their inboxes; and (4) comply with email retention regulations. Mr. Schnaidt turned to Natural Computing GmbH for vendor solution and bitbone AG for the development of the project plan based on Mailspect’s Message Processing Platform or MPP. “MPP fit our needs exactly,” recalls Hermann Schnaidt. “Not only was the solution flexible and customizable because it was built on Open Source components, but the financial aspects were convincing.”

After the selection of MPP as the software vendor, in June 2007, the project was launched. The existing IBM iSeries hardware was supplemented by an IBM eSeries X Server, running Ubuntu 6.06LTS, to protect the mail gateways. The firewall and the email server software were also upgraded.

In addition, a multi-tiered solution was implemented for the mail stream which involved looping through several spam and virus filters. Incoming email is run through the firewall to a mail gateway in the demilitarized zone, where it is inspected and archived, and then routed back through the firewall to the email server. This architecture resulted in an improvement in speed and availability due to improved load balancing.

Storage requirements were reduced freeing up disk storage by stripping internal emails of large attachments. Internal attachments are stored a single time on the server and retrieved via a link embedded in the original email.
Since the completion of the project in July 2007, the email server has not experienced any unscheduled downtime. This is thanks to MPP’s ability to protect the email server from spam, phishing, fraud and virus attacks. MPP also guards against various types of denial-of-service attacks using sender, content, URL, and dictionary rating algorithms. MPP’s spam quarantine tool, QReview, is well structured and can be managed simultaneously at both the end-user and systems admin levels. E-mails are filtered based on their content, header information and attachments and placed in quarantine if they represent a risk.

Good traceability and ease of administration characterize MPP’s integrated interface which oversees the email traffic as its moves on and off the Internet. The email archive is flexible and easy to configure, meets all statutory requirements and has the additional advantage that e-mails can be searched and retrieved quickly. The archived emails can be introduced as evidence in an arbitration or court proceeding.

MPP can process about one million emails per hour; its message tracking feature can be used to create reports and statistics. Mr. Schnaidt is also particularly pleased with MPP’s ease of use, “The web interface is very user friendly and clear and can be mastered by any user.”

According to Mr. Schnaidt, “Problems with the e-mail servers belong to the past. Delays in email delivery have ceased; internal IT efforts related to availability have disappeared. And we don’t waste time preventing denial-of-service attacks. Taken together, MPP increases availability and lowers total cost. ”

End-users have benefited the most from the use of MPP. The email system is stable and always available. The annoying daily task of clearing spam has been eliminated. The employees of the company are more capable of meeting their performance goals because the email system is efficient and productive.

MPP also increases the overall security of Diehl organization. Internal data is harder to leak due to outbound content inspection. Regulatory requirements regarding email retention and email signatures / disclaimers can be centrally administered and unjustified legal claims can be refuted based on archived email evidence.
Diehl is satisfied with the performance of MPP as evidenced by its renewal of the software. “The solution is efficient, easy to use and saves us money. Its value as an evidentiary source has been demonstrated and has protected the company from litigants. We have no reservations regarding its value and utility, “says Hermann Schnaidt.

About Mailspect aka Message Partners: www.mailspect.com
Mailspect, based in New Rochelle, New York, is the producer of the Message Processing Platform or MPP. MPP offers clients a comprehensive and integrated suite of email archiving, compliance and quarantine, completed with spam filters, email policy management, and email retention solutions focused on the Open Source and Apple environments. MPP is based on proven technology, integrates with leading anti spam and antivirus products and currently is installed in client mail systems that process billions of emails per day.
Contact Info: Nick Herring, nherring@mailspect.com

CeBIT 2009: bitbone AG shows brand-new MPP ersion 4.8 email security and archival solution with improved archival functions and interface in German language. The new version of the MPP email gateway archives emails reliably and securely and protects from spam and malware attacks. The email archive abilities of MPP have been significantly improved for the German market as now email messages can be archived with secure digital signatures to protect against tampering.. This intensifies the authenticity of the archived e-mails in case of a legal conflict and is a requirement of German laws. Furthermore, MPP’s new ability to provide content based email routing makes it even more invaluable in email compliance applications.

Germany is a large market for MPP and through our partnership with Bitbone the administration and end-user interfaces of MPP have been translated into German . bitbone AG is proud to present more information on MPP concerning e-mail security and archival on this years CeBIT in Hannover (Germany) from 03 to 08 March on Zarafa’s booth
in hall 6 no. E46/9.

Bitbone has created a customer references story about MPP and in partnership with a major German trucking company, Wilhelm Diehl Internat. Spedition GmbH & Co. KG. This case study is released on bitbone’s website and can be downloaded on www.bitbone.de.

About bitbone AG:
bitbone AG based in Würzburg (Germany) is an independent IT service provider and consultant for companies
and organisations for all questions concerning IT security, e-mail archival, groupware, costumer relationship
management and document management. The company has a large know-how and a long experience in
business from many projects. As a service provider bitbone AG is a MPP partner since 2006.
Furthermore bitbone AG is producer of the open source based security and communications solutions
bitkit|SOLUTIONS which are easy to integrate and administrate. The product range includes fax servers, PDF
servers, groupware servers, e-mail security and archival as well as file servers. Every bitkit|SOLUTION is available
as a software or an appliance.
More information: http://www.bitbone.de
Contact:
Alexandra Sondergeld
Marketing & Public Relations
bitbone AG, Martin-Luther-Str. 5a, D-97072 Würzburg
Telefon: +49 931/250993-0, Fax: +49 931/250993-99, info@bitbone.de
No. 01/2009
Phone: +49 931/250 993-40
Fax: +49 931/250 993-99
E-Mail: sondergeld@bitbone.de
bitbone AG,

Mailspect announced the availability of an English languge offensive work list that is provided to its customers for use with a spam filter. This offensive word list includes hundreds of thousands of permutations of sexually explicit language. Mailspect compiled this bad words list based on seven years of close cooperation with its customers. The list is available for free with Mailspect Defense, a leading anti spam  and antivirus solution targeted at Apple Xserve, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD as well as Open Source Mail Transfer Agents like Postfix and Qmail. Internet Service Providers, who provide ISP, email hosting and website hosting services, as well as SMB and SME enterprises like schools, universities, research institutes, local government and small businesses use the Offensive Language List to protect their users from pornography. Institutions that are under severe public scrutiny use this bad words list as an extra layer of protection.

“Protecting minors from online predators and spammers is important mission for Mailspect,” says Michael Katz, CEO. “The Offensive Language List is an incredibly effect tool that plugs the holes in dynamic spam filters. We need the help of community to make this defense system as impregnable as possible.”

Mailspect Version 5 supports the Open Source MTA’s Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail and Exim. Other Open Source projects supported include MySQL, OpenLDAP, ClamD , SpamAssassin, Spinix and others. Mailspect Version 5runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and on Xserve. Mailspect Version 5 is available as software or as a VMware virtual server.  It works with Zimbra, Open-Xchange, Scalix, Zarafa, Communigate Pro, Microsoft Exchnage, and Lotus Notes.

About Mailspect                                                                                                           www.mailspect.com

Mailspect, Inc. is headquartered in Tarrytown, New York with operations in Romania and the Ukraine and sells indirectly through a worldwide network of distributors and resellers.  Email Stream Management is the technical basis of its award winning Open Source and Open Standards-based Mailspect Platform.  Mailspect Version 5 protects the email stream from malware and Internet attacks, Mailspect Defense (including Quarantine Review); integrates email and its attachments with core web services applications like CRM, Match My Email; and archives the email stream in compliance with government regulations and legal discovery rules, Mailspect Archive.  Mailspect currently is installed in client mail systems, at Independent Service Providers  and in the Cloud and processes billions of emails per day.  RAE Internet Inc. is the US distributor of F-Prot anti-virus; http://www.raeinternet.com/.

Message Partners Announces New Email Content Controls for Compliance and Law Enforcement Applications

August 11, 2008 New Rochelle, NY – Message Partners is pleased to announce advanced email content filtering controls as part of the release of MPP v4. With this new technology MPP can satisfy the demands of service providers, law enforcement and enterprise customers with complex content based routing and surveillance capabilities.

“We are seeing strong demand for compliance drive applications and MPPv4 adds a wealth of tools to the arsenal of any email administrator,” says Michael Katz of Message Partners. “With the addition of international character sets, flexible action settings and a wealth of new filtering mechanisms MPP is extending its reach well beyond spam filtering,” continues Katz.

MPPv4 is the most advanced release of MPP yet. In addition to all of the content filtering features available MPPv4 offers enhanced scalability, antispam features such as Sender Policy Framework and enhanced automatic black lists, a new manual spam scoring algorithm for highly tailored environments and a refined and streamlined GUI.

MPP is available directly from Message Partners in the US as well as through our worldwide network of partners. MPP is available under GSA contract# GS-35F-0460T.

About Message Partners – http://messagepartners.com
Message Partners, based in New Rochelle, NY is the producer of MPP and is a global leader in email filtering and archival solutions.

Contact Info: Simone Duncan, +1 914 712 3352

Introducing MPPxpress Managed Email Filtering and Compliance

June 25, 2008 New Rochelle, NY – Message Partners is pleased to announce MPPxpress – a managed email filtering and compliance service targeted to small and medium sized businesses. MPPxpress offers all of the benefits of our flagship product, MPP – top-notch spam filtering, content controls and regulatory compliance – without the hassles of software installation.

“SMB’s demand enterprise grade service and transparent simplicity, MPPxpress fits this need,” says Michael Katz of Message Partners. “The market is clearly moving towards managed services for customers of all sizes,” continues Katz.

“MPPxpress has completely stopped our spam problem,” says JayaprakashKanooth of ebizQ, a customer of MPPxpress. “Support has been great and we implemented the service in minutes,” continues Kanooth. “We had been using other popular products for our Exchange Server, but nothing did the trick like MPPxpress.”

MPPxpress uses a combination of connection controls, email content analysis and pattern analysis to provide best-of-breedanti-spam, anti-phishing and malware protection. Administrators and end-users can manage their spam quarantines, set spam actions and control antispam preferences from an intuitive control panel.

MPPxpress can safely archive email and provides ultra-fast full text searching of email archives. MPPxpress can import email from different sources and can quickly export to standard formats.

MPPxpress features unique services that differentiate from other email filtering offerings including attachment stripping and storage, content based routing and surveillance and detailed message tracking statistics.

To learn more please visit us at http://messagepartners.com

About Message Partners
Message Partners, based in New Rochelle, NY is the producer of MPP and is a global leader in email filtering and archival solutions. MPP is the ideal product for email service providers to base their architectures on because our forward-thinking technology bridges open source and commercial.

+1 914 712 9050, info@messagepartners.com

March 27, 2008 New Rochelle, NY – Message Partners is pleased to announce availability of instant email protection and archival with our new MPP Virtual Appliance. With MPP’s instant protection businesses of all sizes can deploy a world-class email gateway with multilayer virus and spam filtering and compliance grade archival in minutes. The MPP Virtual Appliance is built on the ubiquitous VMWare platform.

“Our customers have demanded a simpler way to evaluate MPP and we have delivered,” says Rachel Amsellem of Message Partners. “It has never been easier to install and configure MPP than now,” adds Michael Katz, CEO of Message Partners.

MPP delivers carrier grade email virus and spam protection to businesses of all sizes. Our compliance grade archival is perfect for businesses or service providers that require email storage in a standard format, outside of the Exchange architecture.

About Message Partners – http://messagepartners.com

Message Partners, based in New Rochelle, NY is the producer of MPP and is a global leader in email filtering and archival solutions. MPP is the ideal product for email service providers to base their architectures on because our forward-thinking technology bridges open source and commercial.

Contact Info: Simone Duncan, +1 914 712 3352

February 7, 2008 Tarrytown, NY – Mailspect, a global leader in email security and compliance solutions, is pleased to announce the Mailspect Control Panel and Qaurantine Solution. These new software pacakges simplify email services for service providers by providing a scalable, open platform for providers to easily roll-out email archive and filtering services. Service providers that use Mailspect Defense andArchive as the core of their email service offerings will reduce development costs and increase agility.

“We added email archival to our existing filtering service in days,” says Paco Wasserman of IMTU Systems. “We were going to start a huge development effort but Mailspect had a solution that we quickly added to our existing filtering service.”

Mailspect is extending its platform with a service provider grade spam quarantine solution, archive browser with full text search and a Control Panel. Mailspect features per-domain configurations, an essential element for service providers. The entire Maislpect platform interfaces seamlessly with LDAP subscriber directories for settings, policy selection and authentication. Mailspect is easily customized to match your look and feel and careful attention has been paid to translation. Mailspect’s community is truly global and Mailspect can be translated to any language easily and the text of any menu item or dialog can be modified by the operator to suit their requirements.