March 10, 2006 Lighthouse Unveils Open Source Message Archiving Software By Compliance Pipeline Staff Courtesy of , Stamford, CT, has brought out an open source electronic message archiving program to aid in regulatory compliance and legal discovery. The new E-Trail Digital Archive software captures e-mail, instant messages, faxes and other unstructured data using one of three methods: real-time capture, batch capture or backfilling from archive media in any format. In all cases the product uses single instance storage on the message as well as each attachment. Messages are retrieved through a web interface that allows users to select communications based on any combination of sender(s), receiver(s), date/time windows, department codes, and keyword/phrases/regular expressions. Moreover, the queries can be fine-tuned to include case sensitivity/insensitivity, external/internal/all communication filters, and Boolean operations on the sender/receiver fields, according to Lighthouse. Queries can also be scheduled to launch automatically. The software includes an audit-ready role and/or user-based authentication subsystem, a query management system, and a reporting mechanism. While Lighthouse claims that E-Trail Digital Archive can scale to any size organization; it was designed with small- and medium-sized businesses in mind. Enterprise license costs start at $10,000. "There is no excuse for any organization to ignore its Sarbanes-Oxley obligations with respect to information archiving and retrieval," said Arthur Riel, CTO of Lighthouse Global. "The regulators and judges have zero tolerance concerning a lack of document production in either regulatory investigations or civil litigation. A quick survey of current news articles will find the landscape littered with the stories of companies who ignored this operating facet of their firms." E-mail This Story Print This Story Get the latest Messaging news, product info, and trends every week.			AXS-One, OnSite E-Discovery Partner To Combine Compliance, Document Retention, E-Discovery And Litigation Support Morgan Stanley Muddles Through An E-Mail Mess First Look: Jabber XCP 5.0 Report: Demand Continues To Grow For E-mail Archiving IM: Real-Time Securrity Problems For Financial Services Mirapoint Unveils E-mail Archiving Appliance     Messaging Pipeline's Main RSS Feed     Messaging Pipeline's Blog RSS Feed Editorial and vendor perspectives The Six Flavors Of Windows Vista Microsoft plans to release a full six-pack of Vista versions, one for every taste. Which Vista will be right for you? Hope is Not Enough When It Comes To Compliance Three Ways To Authenticate E-Mail And Stop Spam Wikis In The Workplace Review: Google Desktop 3 Vendors are now talking about how collaboration can be improved by integrating video with messaging applications. They're even talking about adding live TV to mobile phones. How far do you go before it becomes a bandwidth and business productivity drain? Video is a great idea     13% Video is fine but there needs to be size limits     25% It's never used for anything really productive     38% I draw the line at live TV     25% In search of messaging products? Check out our brand new Product Finder for a directory of groupware and collaboration tools, security products, archiving solutions, and more.