MailMeter vs. Mimecast Cloud Archive

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MailMeter
Score 9.6 out of 10
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Irish company Waterford Technologies offers MailMeter, an email archiving solution.N/A
Mimecast Cloud Archive
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Mimecast Cloud Archive provides an archive storage solution for data retention, as well as search and retrieval of email, attachments and MS Teams conversations. The cloud archiving solution offers search capabilities for employees and automated tools for administrators that simplify management of mailboxes, e-discovery and litigation support.N/A
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MailMeterMimecast Cloud Archive
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Pricing Offerings
MailMeterMimecast Cloud Archive
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
MailMeterMimecast Cloud Archive
Considered Both Products
MailMeter
Chose MailMeter
Probably an unfair comparison, but Mimecast has some interesting features that MailMeter does not. First, Mimecast is cloud, MailMeter is on-premise. Mimecast has all the same eDiscovery features that MailMeter has, however is also able to offer seamless archive stubbing into …
Mimecast Cloud Archive

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Top Pros
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MailMeterMimecast Cloud Archive
Small Businesses
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.1 out of 10
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 8.6 out of 10
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
MailMeterMimecast Cloud Archive
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.3
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
3.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
MailMeterMimecast Cloud Archive
Likelihood to Recommend
Waterford Technologies
If you are looking for an onsite solution, MailMeter does the job. Like any program, you will have problems on occasion, however the product is fairly stable. In my opinion, mail archiving is a service that's more suited towards cloud-based services rather than on premise. Much like a spam filter that runs on a Windows server, this product feels like it's from a bygone era.
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Mimecast
If you want to keep your production email system from getting bloated with old, out of date emails and want the archived emails to be easily searchable, Mimecast Archiving is an ideal tool. It is also completely cloud-based, so requires no additional infrastructure to implement it. If you are paranoid about storing your email in the cloud (albeit in a totally secure environment), then Mimecast is not for you.
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Pros
Waterford Technologies
  • The program is a beast and continues to chug away at emails.
  • The interface is simple and doesn't require reading a manual to understand.
  • MailMeter works fully with all versions of Exchange, including Office 365.
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Mimecast
  • Message archiving is essential in healthcare and Mimecast makes it easy and at a reasonable cost. One of the features we appreciate most is the search function. Outlook can be pretty frustrating when it comes to searching for messages and Mimecast adds plenty of filtering and search capabilities that help find what Outlook can't.
  • Targeted Threat Protection (TTP) is a great service that proxies URL's in email and adds an extra layer of protection against malicious attachments. The addition of TTP a couple years ago demonstrates Mimecast's continued development to meet modern threats.
  • Online mailbox can be used for email continuity if your mail server is down. We don't have frequent downtime but it's good to know communications can keep flowing if we do.
  • Support is always helpful and timely.
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Cons
Waterford Technologies
  • They can improve and work on GUI for sure
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Mimecast
  • Although many people seem to love it, I think their search capability takes some getting used to. It works and you can find anything you need but it is not as clean as if searching in Outlook.
  • When an incoming domain is on the Mimecast's blacklist the email is totally blocked and there is no notification of this so if a user tells me they are not getting email from somewhere I sometimes have to assume this is the issue and go the extra step and add that domain to a white list not knowing if it will really solve the issue.
  • The Large File send options in outlook work fairly well but if one is sending a dozen files the receiver SHOULD get an option to download them all into one size but they do not. Instead they have to download each file individually.
  • Some of their new client releases can cause issues so you must test the clients well and usually stick with a good one when you get one that works well in your environment.
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Likelihood to Renew
Waterford Technologies
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Mimecast
Does everything we need in the realm of email archiving, does it well and does it at a price point that seems very reasonable.
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Support Rating
Waterford Technologies
Of the few times I've dealt with support, I felt like the people who were on the other end couldn't help me. Latest instance was with resolving a license renewal issue, they had to connect me to someone in Ireland and were on a tight schedule to help me during their shift. Come to find that I could not renew a license because their license server was down. In all it wasn't a good support experience, however unfortunately par for the course.
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Mimecast
It does a good job. The support team of the product was good and responsive and was also able to fix the issues I was experiencing at the time. It isn't perfect and takes some time to set up properly in the environment but once set up the product does what it is supposed to do which is what you are paying for.
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Alternatives Considered
Waterford Technologies
Probably an unfair comparison, but Mimecast has some interesting features that MailMeter does not. First, Mimecast is cloud, MailMeter is on-premise. Mimecast has all the same eDiscovery features that MailMeter has, however is also able to offer seamless archive stubbing into Outlook. Since you don't have to suck up resources on your local network, you easily save money spent on disk/compute resources.
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Mimecast
Users are not able to delete emails hence Mimecast EIA becomes a very useful tool during e-discovery. For EOA, they offer an inplace archive which means that emails can be deleted if the service is not turned on.
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Return on Investment
Waterford Technologies
  • in terms of storage it has been awesome
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Mimecast
  • We needed a product that would allow us to keep at least 7 years worth of emails as required by the business and Mimecast, with its unlimited archiving, meets this requirement perfectly.
  • Being a cloud-based solution allowed us to save on hardware, infrastructure, and maintenance costs when compared to our previous on-prem appliance.
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