How to mitigate the risk of deleted emails in Outlook
Inside the Trash folder Message removal is an important feature of all email applications. It allows you to get rid of unwanted emails. Unwanted email is something you don’t want in your mailbox any longer for some reason. Unwanted is indeed a loose term. It…
Cyberhackers are Targeting your Organization’s Sensitive Data
Archive360 wrote an article about a security breach of Mimecast’s Saas platform claiming that “this unfortunate breach highlights the main security issues associated with third-party SaaS providers like Mimecast” The article’s solution is twofold: ask for your vendor’s or SaaS provider’s security model, and take…
Installing piler enterprise on a single Ubuntu 20.04 node
A step-by-step walkthrough how to install piler enterprise on a single Ubuntu 20.04 node using a no-tenant license. Note that even though the video describes how to install all components on a single node, you are free to create a more distributed layout. Eg. install…
No-cost RHEL for small production workloads
You might have heard the rumor that Redhat had basically killed the Centos product line as we knew it in last December: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ This caused a massive disturbance in the Centos users’ community, see https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta/ for more on the topic. So Redhat in a response…
Searching in the GUI
This is the second part of our tutorial for end users how to use the free style search form in the piler GUI. The video covers several examples how to get the emails you want from the archive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sobGxL_tMA Part 1: Introduction and the basic…
Introduction to the piler GUI
Just made a short introduction video for end users how to use the piler GUI with a browser. It covers the following topics login elements of the search window basic features restore, download messages apply tags and notes user preferences help menu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUJ9ufBxU_Y Part 2:…
How to prepare your inbox and home office for a fresh start in 2021
Carson Tate wrote a genius article about how to organize and take both your home and your inbox to the next level. He explains how to turn your email program to your personal assistant by prioritizing your emails using color codes, and tracking your pending…
Stop using SMS as part of Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
In today’s security landscape passwords alone might not be sufficient to protect resources. One way to improve the authentication process is asking something else beyond the passwords. Many products as well as several banks offer multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a method to increase security. One…
Import over the GUI
Starting from version 1.5.0, it’s possible to import emails from IMAP accounts over the GUI. The first step is to enable the import menu in the GUI. Set the following in /etc/piler/config-site.php: $config[‘ENABLE_IMPORT’] = 1; For multitenant installations you may enable it selectively for certain…
Consolidating several anti-spam message headers on the SMTP gateway
A dedicated SMTP gateway is optional in front of the archive, however it may provide huge benefits using one. For example it may shield your archive’s smtp port from the outside world, or it may help you unify the various antispam message headers. Scenario You…
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