McAfee Migration Deadline Approaching
Friday, December 9th, 2016
McAfee has been LuxSci’s partner for premium email filtering and email archival services, well, since these services were owned by McAfee-acquired MXLogic and MXLogic first started setting up partner relationships. A long time.
In late 2015, McAfee announced that it was ending its email filtering and archival service offerings, effective January 11th, 2017. They gave everyone about 1 year to find alternatives and move away before the plug is pulled.
LuxSci chose two replacement companies: Proofpoint for email filtering and Sonian for email archival. Both are very good; Proofpoint was even the 2015 pick by Gartner as the best in email filtering. We announced this change in December of 2015:
Introducing Proofpoint and Sonian to replace McAfee for Premium Filtering and Archival
Over the past year, LuxSci has been working long hours migrating its 1000s of customers from McAfee to these new services. All customers who were previously using McAfee have migration-related support tickets with detailed information and instructions on the process. A majority of customers are all set — their migrations are complete.
There are, however, several hundred customers who have yet to complete the migration of their email filtering to Proofpoint: their email is still flowing through their old McAfee accounts. These customers are in charge of the DNS settings for their domains, so LuxSci can not complete the migration steps without their assistance. These customers need to follow the instructions in their migration tickets, which includes:
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For the past five months, new customers who have purchased 
McAfee announced several months ago that it is “end-of-lifeing” its Email Filtering and Email Archival services. These are the services that LuxSci has been reselling for more than 10 years (as one of McAfee’s first resellers in this area) as its Premium Email Filtering and Archival solutions.
