MailStore Gateway Help
MailStore Gateway is a free, complementary tool for our email archiving solutions MailStore Server and MailStore Service Provider Edition.
It provides SMTP and POP3 proxy functionality as well as simple mailserver functionality to receive and store emails from Microsoft Office 365 Journaling, Google G Suite, or other email servers that deliver emails to external archiving solutions via SMTP. MailStore Server and MailStore Service Provider Edition are then able to archive the emails from MailStore Gateway mailboxes
Getting Started
The following provides a walk-though of the essential steps to get the MailStore Gateway up and running.
Before You Start
| Overview | Learn more about the scenarios in which MailStore Gateway provided a decent solution to common problems. |
| System Requirements | Before installing MailStore Gateway, ensure that the system requirements are met. |
Installation and Setup
| Installation | Irrespective of the projected scenario, it all begins with the installation of the software itself. |
| Basic Configuration | After successful installation some basic configuration settings should be reviewed and adjusted where needed. |
| Firewall Configuration | To access MailStore Gateway from remote systems, appropriate firewall rules must be set up. |
Using MailStore Gateway
| Logging On | MailStore Gateway comes with a web-based console for administrators to do basic configuration tasks and creating mailboxes. |
| Creating Mailboxes | Mailboxes on MailStore Gateway contain the emails to be archived by MailStore Server or MailStore Service Provider Edition, and thus represent the core functionality of the product. |
Post Installation Tasks
| Backup and Restore | Although email typically reside in MailStore Gateway mailboxes for a rather short time, it is highly recommended to protect the content of the mailboxes, by implementing a decent backup plan, from hardware or software failure that could mean potential loss of data. |
| Monitoring | This article to tries to give and overview of what services and parameters to proactively monitor with a suitable monitoring solution, in order to provide users the best possible experience. |
