Lotus Notes - Email Archiving...

Lotus Notes is a solution that few have mastered. When it comes to mail archiving and file management there are very few tools that can actually do this and some Lotus Notes fundi's say an email archiving tool is not required for Notes.

Let's dispell the myth about Notes and Archiving.

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Sherpa Software‘s Attender Utility solutions provide extensive data archiving, email management, PST administration, content filtering, electronic discovery and policy enforcement capabilities to companies addressing issues related to storage management, e-discovery and compliance within Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino. Our solutions were designed to be as non-invasive as possible and do not require any additional hardware or software components.

But what about Notes, Why must I archive when Notes is so powerful?

Well, Lotus Notes is powerful, that cannot be denied, but what if that power could be enhanced? There is no need to reinvent any wheels and no superb functionality is removed. The other thing, what if you did not need any seriously good programming skills?

Tools are available and one of them, possilbly the best, is Sherpa Software.


Mail Attender provides comprehensive archiving, policy enforcement and content filtering to companies looking to address issues related to storage management, retention, content discovery and compliance within email. Management is executed from a central location with flexible configuration options that can be applied to the entire company or to a subset of mail users. Mail Attender streamlines the management process and gives administrators complete control over their entire mail environment.

Discovery Attender is an e-discovery tool that automates investigative tasks in Domino server databases, IM logs and common file storage areas (.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc.). Discovery Attender enables IT and Legal teams to immediately access content and efficiently search, locate and review data for document discovery requests.


Compliance Attender is email compliance management software that provides fine-tuned control over all sent and received messages users are emailing in teh company's mail environment. Messages are captured before they are routed, allowing the collection, quarantine, archive and disclaiming of messages in response to compliance requirements. Management discreetly executes rules from a central location to all, or a select group of users. With Compliance Attender, companies are able to comply with increasingly stringent industry regulations, government legislation and internal compliance corporate policies.

Compliance Attender can easily:

• Capture Sent and Received Email Messages in Real Time
• Quarantine Messages based upon multiple criteria
• Add Disclaimers to Messages based upon multiple criteria
• Eliminate reliance on the Domino Journal to reduce Notes server load
• Facilitate e-discovery and address email compliance regulations
• Archive emails to a secure location

Database Attender is a Lotus Notes database management and archiving tool that gathers information about the Notes infrastructure and provides proactive control over ACL settings, content, usage/growth and database deployment management.

File Attender is a Lotus Notes-based file and IM management product that manages the files on a user's hard drive or on a Domino server, which includes files on any random access storage that the user or server can address (File server, WORM, SANS, NAS, JukeBox, etc.)

MAIL SCAN FOR LOTUS NOTES - MailScan 5.5 for Lotus Notes, acts like a Content-Security and Anti-Virus Software between your Corporate Lotus Notes Mail Server and the Internet.

It has the world's first e-mail, Content-Security and Anti-Virus feature that analyzes e-mail's on a real-time basis, before they are delivered to the clients or the servers on your network. This version, allows you to scan internal mails (local user to local user) and external mails (local user to Internet, Internet to local user).

Genie Backup Manager Professional is a simple yet robust backup solution that allows users to backup and restore reliably. It allows users to backup their data to virtually any storage destination and uses Windows Explorer style file/folder selection. With AES encryption, you can add security to your data to prevent from unauthorized access. Equipped with Windows Vista compatible disaster recovery feature, guarantees your business continuity by backing up your whole system. GBM Pro V8.0 delivers high reliability as it packs everything under one roof by providing a built-in open/used files backup agent together with an easy-to-use smart interface for a full featured solution to small and medium businesses.