Comments on: Surprising Survey Results

By: Brad Senter

Brad Senter — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:17 +0000

@Rick Chorney In our case we sell AV solutions that are integrated with the mail server itself. By way of example, to add AV to an IMail Server with 1000 users the retail cost is $1495.00 per year. That is a cost of only $1.50 per user, per year. Should companies look at the per user cost as the deciding factor I think the costs begin to make sense. However, I agree with you...cost is always an issue.

By: Rick Chorney

Rick Chorney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:33:57 +0000

The cost to empliment the antivirus to what is charged to the customer is counter productive. If companies would make the anti-virus solution more affordable then more people would jump on the band wagon and use it.

By: Brad Senter

Brad Senter — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:49:46 +0000

@Chad Skelton @Larry Dunn – you are exactly right the OSE of MailArchiva is completely functional and much better than no archiving solution at all. However, the Enterprise Edition has a more robust feature-set. For a full comparative table view MailArchiva’s website at http://www.mailarchiva.com/features.htm – it shows everything you pay for with the EE. One of the primary reasons people opt to pay for the EE is for the Envelope Journaling and “Bulk” commands. SMBs in particular have utilized the “Restore” feature found only in the EE version – it has saved many SMBs a lot of time and money.

By: James

James — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:16:54 +0000

@Chad Skelton download the open source version of mailArchiva and use the pop3 option.

By: Larry Dunn

Larry Dunn — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:13:11 +0000

Not surprising, but cost and system duplication becomes a problem, especially us, a non-profit school. By the time I pay for the operating system, applications software, file virus scanner, email virus scanner, spyware scanner, anti-spam, file back-up device and software, and email archive system I’ve blown whatever budget I had. When you’re talking about 150 computers in a school network, it gets cost prohibitive. I have a good virus scanner for data files, but have to buy a separate system for email scanning, spam and spyware.

By: Chad Skelton

Chad Skelton — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:52:22 +0000

We use your I-mail product and I’m interested in learning more about E-mail archiving.