Hive MailPath: Simplifying Legacy Email Migration
If your firm uses ND Mail but still stores years of email history in Exchange servers or PST files, you’re not just sitting on a data silo; you’re sitting on a risk. Legacy email often contains critical communications tied to client matters, disputes, or regulatory obligations. Hive MailPath is the missing link that securely and seamlessly integrates your historical email into your modern governance framework, without disrupting your team.
Why Legacy Email Is a Problem
Old email archives are more than just storage issues; they create compliance and productivity risks. Without proper ingestion into NetDocuments, your team cannot search critical messages, and manual exports strip away valuable metadata and folder structures. Archived emails also disconnect from current matters, making it difficult to access key communications when they matter most. As a result, teams may miss legal holds because the data stays locked away. In short, outdated methods cause firms to lose visibility, control, and defensibility.
Common Pain Points for Legal and IT Teams
The challenges for legal and IT teams pile up quickly. Manual exports often break metadata and folder hierarchies, leaving important details behind. Disconnected archives make it nearly impossible to link older emails with active matters, which slows down casework. Inaccessible or fragmented storage delays legal hold processes, while IT departments face constant bottlenecks when they must handle large volumes of email manually. Together, these issues create unnecessary risk and waste valuable time.
How Hive MailPath Solves It
Hive MailPath eliminates these challenges and streamlines email management. The platform ingests Exchange archives, whether cloud-based or on-premises, directly into ND Mail with ease. It preserves metadata, folder structures, and access permissions so your team retains every detail. It also processes high volumes with little IT involvement and maintains legal holds by integrating with your firm’s governance policies. Whether you need to migrate 10 GB or 10 TB of data, Hive MailPath adapts seamlessly to your firm’s needs.
Use Case
To see this in practice, consider a 300-attorney firm that migrated 10 years of partner email from on-prem Exchange into NetDocuments. Hive MailPath synced the entire archive over two weekends while preserving folder structures and metadata. Attorneys avoided the hassle of mapping or moving data themselves, saving countless hours. By the end of the migration, the firm gained full searchability and governance over its historical email, with no downtime, no data loss, and no headaches.
Make Legacy Email Work for You
Once ingested, archived messages fold directly into your standard search experience in NetDocuments. This shift accelerates discovery during litigation, improves access to historical client communications, and boosts overall efficiency. Even better, archived content integrates with Hive Govern and Hive Discover, giving your firm end-to-end compliance and a defensible, future-ready process.
Bring Legacy Email Into the Light
Don’t let years of valuable communication live outside your governance ecosystem. Hive MailPath bridges the gap between your past and present, so your firm can stay compliant, searchable, and secure.
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