Compression Module

"The network is getting slow…"

For some slowdowns, there is a solution - Policy Patrol Zip!

The culprit for many network slowdowns is large files sent to and from the network as attachments. An easy answer for reducing network volume is attachment compression. But the implementation of compression can add a burden on users and create complaints to administrators. The full answer is server-based compression.

Policy Patrol Zip allows you to compress and decompress your users' email attachments at the server level; The user doesn't even need to know! This provides the advantages of compression without user hassles and the lost productivity zipping and unzipping files.

Powerful Customization to Your Business Needs

Policy Patrol Zip's powerful rules wizard allows you to create customized user-based rules with conditions, exceptions and actions. Each rule can be scheduled by date and time.

Easy to install and configure

Policy Patrol Zip ships with several sample compression rules, so you can start compressing attachments just minutes after installation.

Benefits

1. Increased productivity: Reduced network congestion, directly improves employee productivity. Users also save time by not having to zip and unzip attachments themselves.
2. Cost savings: Reduced bandwidth usage and message storage requirements provides significant cost savings.
3. Quick ROI with flexible user licensing: You only need to purchase a license for the users that you want to compress attachments for. If you want to add users at a later stage, you can purchase additional licenses.

Features

Compress attachments
Policy Patrol Zip can compress all attachments, or only attachments of a certain size or format. You can compress attachments into one zipped archive or into separate archives for each attachment. Passwords can be applied to zipped archives.

Decompress attachments
Policy Patrol Zip can automatically decompress zipped archives to save users time unzipping the attachments themselves. By indicating a maximum extracted file size, you can prevent attachments from becoming too large.

Internal email and external email compression
Attachments can be compressed and decompressed for external and internal emails (if installed on Exchange Server 2007, 2003 or 2000). Since Policy Patrol Zip can distinguish between internally and externally sent mails, different compression rules can be applied to each.

User-based rules
Compression rules can be applied to selected users, groups, or domains and can have user or group exclusions.

Condition-based compression rules
Apart from attachment type and size, compression or decompression rules can also trigger for only certain recipients or when a specified code is in the subject field. This code can then be removed by Policy Patrol Zip before delivering the message.

Auto-replies
Policy Patrol Zip allows you to send auto-replies for existing users and for employees who have left your organization.

Exchange Server & Lotus Domino integration
Policy Patrol Zip works with Exchange Server 2007, 2003, 2000 & 5.5 (or Windows Small Business Server), Lotus Domino and any other SMTP mail server.

Policy Patrol Zip takes full advantage of the Active Directory structure, which enables you to select users, groups, domains and contacts from the Active Directory, and to retrieve user properties for merge fields.

If you do not have Active Directory, Policy Patrol Zip can also retrieve users & groups and their properties from Exchange Server 5.5 and Lotus Domino. Alternatively, you can import users from a text file or manually enter users and their email addresses.