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…
Email archiving is the first line of defense from regulation penalties
Emails may contain evidence that can save you from FINRA fines. Only if you can present the relevant emails. A broker firm avoided penalties, because they had an email archive that preserved important emails that could prove their innocence. “FINRA fined a financial advisor…
SMTP ACL list
By default the piler-smtp server receives emails from any sources, and it may be a challenge to get rid of spammers accessing port 25. You may have several options to achieve that, eg. use iptables or a network firewall to restrict smtp access to the…
Running piler enterprise in a containerized environment with docker-compose
In the previous blog post we learned that the traefik edge router is a handy tool to provide https connection together with Let’s Encrypt. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could run all components required by an email archive including traefik as well in a…
How to obtain an A-grade Let’s Encrypt certificate with traefik
Nowadays a secure https connection is a must. I show you in this article how to obtain an A-grade https certificate with the traefik edge router for your archive. And the best part? Traefik automatically renews the certificate before it expires! To spare you from…
Benefits of email archiving
The importance of email Email is one of the basic building blocks of the Internet. It’s the most dominant form of business communication including client contacts, lead generation, internal messaging, etc. Also, an email address is required to sign up to virtually every online service.The…
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