These tools reduce the amount of space required to store attachments and the amount of time required to send messages by applying various compression techniques.
If you use Microsoft Outlook 2010, see Outlook 2010′s Default Attachment Size for an issue that may cause issues when using these tools.
The applications on this page are used on the Exchange server and SMTP gateways. Tools for use on user's desktops are listed at Compression Tools for Outlook.
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Tools in the Spotlight
Mail Attender provides comprehensive content management in PST files (personal storage folders) on desktops/servers, mailboxes and public folders. With MA Enterprise, administrators can distribute/enforce common policies, archive data and search content in multiple information stores from a central web interface. Also, can track statistical information such as total message/attachment count, size and type while tracking usage of individual users. Works with Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007. |
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ExchangeCompress allows you to control the space used by attachments and reduce the size of your Exchange mailboxes by up to 80%. Zip, strip or delete attachments. Supports Exchange 2000 to 2007. Version 2.5.26 | |
Exclaimer Store Compressor is an automated tool to manage your emails and attachments. You specify when, how and what you want to compress and Exclaimer Store Compressor does all the work. Exclaimer Store Compressor can be customised to compress only what you want to compress after a specified number of days or you can zip attachments instantly. Use it to remove unnecessary HTML and RTF formatting, or remove mailbox content such as sent items and attachments, deleted emails and spam, appointments and tasks. Exclaimer Store Compressor will also schedule a defrag of your Exchange store to optimise your email performance. | |
Performs anti-virus and content scanning of traffic between Exchange and the Internet. Can also perform automatic compression. | |
MaX Compression automatically and invisibly zips and unzips attachments in Outlook and Exchange. The benefits are: reducing demands for storage and bandwidth and improves productivity. There are four components. MC Client for Outlook which zips/unzips in real time. MC for OWA giving corresponding features in Outlook Web Access. MC Server which will zip/unzip existing attachments in an Exchange Information Store. MC Gateway which will zip/unzip as attachments pass through the SMTP gateway. When/what to zip is according to a rule set, created by the administrator. | |
Plus Pack integrates key features such as Outlook-like addressing, global address list contacts, roaming personal dictionaries, and much more, transforming OWA into an intuitive, Outlook-like web mail application. | |
Plus Pack 2.4 for Exchange 2007 provides desktop Outlook functionality not previously available to the OWA user, including enhanced new mail notification, editable personal dictionaries, advanced calendar search, addressing enhancements and the ability to import special events and holidays. In addition, for OWA Light users, Plus Pack provides weekly and monthly calendar views, first-ever new mail notification and many other features. | |
Provides compression and decompression of email attachments at server level. Compression rules can be user-based and applied to incoming or outgoing mail, and internal or external messages. | |
ZipMail for OWA also provides fully integrated automatic and transparent decompression of the Microsoft Outlook Web Access and Webmail Zip attached files. |
More Information
- Housekeeping and Message Management Tools — More tools for dealing with folder size issues
- Mobile Access to Microsoft Exchange Server Data — Many of the mobile access tools include compression to reduce bandwidth requirements.
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Last reviewed on Dec 8, 2011
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