MessageLabs Hosted Email Archiving

MessageLabs Hosted Email Archiving

MessageLabs Hosted Email Archiving is a service designed to help your company address the challenges of email storage management, legal discovery, and regulatory compliance. It safely archives internal and external emails off site, while providing rapid, on-demand access to your emails after they have been archived.

Why use our Hosted Email Archiving Service?

Feature Benefits
Support for end-user searches within Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Web Access Powerful search functionality harnesses scalable cloud-based processing resources to deliver rapid results from any point of access.
Flexible retention policies Custom policy settings provide management control over email retention policies.
Customizable supervision and review For companies that operate in highly regulated industries, the optional supervision and review features allow compliance staff to automate the process of monitoring, reviewing, and commenting on email communications.
Single-instance storage and optional stubbing for emails and attachments Reduce local email stores by as much as 80% lowering backup times and providing users with large mailboxes without the need for PST files.
Archive existing mail stores Archive existing mail stores with tools designed to import mail from PST files or live Exchange environments.
Support for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and GroupWise servers Support for multiple email servers to create one searchable off site email archive.
Complements MessageLabs Email Security and Continuity services Avoid archiving spam and viral email by deploying with MessageLabs Email Security services. Minimize Exchange server downtime and data loss through MessageLabs Email Continuity service.


As with all MessageLabs services, our Hosted Email Archiving service includes 24x7x365 support.

Email Archiving- How it works

MessageLabs Hosted Email Archive service safely and securely stores all emails sent or received by your email server in offsite data centres freeing you from the expense and effort involved in storing and managing huge amounts of email in-house.

Archiving Service Information Exchange



  • An administrator sets up accounts, permissions and configures retention policies.

  • Depending on your preference, you will either deploy an on premise archive server within your environment or a purely hosted set up with emails journaled via a secure TLS connection.

  • A secure, external, repository is established to store, manage and maintain your archived email.

  • As email is sent and received within the primary email system, a copy of each message (including internal email) is sent to the data center.

  • Email and attachments are de-duplicated and securely stored along with relevant metadata.

  • Mail can easily be retrieved from the hosted archive by users within the company.

  • Supported mail servers include: Microsoft® Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010, plus IBM Lotus Domino 6.x – 8.x, Novell GroupWise and Linux/Unix mail servers (SMTP).


Getting Started

MessageLabs Hosted Email Archiving service is a cost-effective and easy-to-manage email archive solution that meets the requirements for businesses of all size. It can be combined with MessageLabs email Anti-Virus and email Anti-Spam services to ensure that only clean, legitimate business messages are archived.

Contact our sales team now for more information.

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