


(2) John Seward has always provided outstanding tech support - always zoomed in on the problem, or lack thereof, and resolved my issue.

When other programs failed to find something I was sure was there, I always returned to MailSteward, and it found the emails.
MAILSTEWARD PRO APPKED ARCHIVE
Up front - two reasons: (1) it is the only mail archive program I have used with which I never had a problem of it not finding an email.
MAILSTEWARD PRO APPKED FOR MAC
But I wanted to share here the main reason I still use my MacBook Air - what I believe is the best mail archive program out there - for Mac or Windows - MailSteward. And for many reasons I have become very disappointed, even disgruntled with Apple and my MacBook Air and my iPad. The toolbar also sports Reply and Forward buttons that create new outgoing messages in Apple Mail-a handy shortcut that saves some copy/paste bouncing between applications.I have never made a review before. Combined with MailSteward Pro’s search prowess, you could, for example, find and print every invoice received from a particular vendor in the third quarter of 2009. Most of the actions can be applied to the selected message, the messages that appear in the current list, or all the messages in the whole database. It’s all quite clean and understandable, but has the feel of being designed by a very capable engineer, not a user interface expert.Įach of the Print, Save, Delete, and Export buttons in the toolbar offer thoughtful array of choices. Select any message and its contents and attachments appear in stacked window panes just below the list. Just below the toolbar is a list of the emails that meet your search criteria. A toolbar across the top offers buttons and menus for finding and manipulating messages. The message viewer window is functional, but not exactly beguiling. Once MailSteward Pro has some data in its system, browsing and searching becomes possible. MailStward Pro’s search options make it easy to find the message you need. Regardless of options and configurations, it’s probably wise to let that first big backup run overnight. My testing saw MailSteward Pro copying messages at a rate of about eight per second, though I wasn’t including attachments or applying Tag Rules. For example, any message that comes from your cousin’s email address can automatically be tagged with the “Family” category and the keyword “cousin.” Set up a Tag Rule for each member of your family that assigns appropriate keywords, and it becomes dead simple to search for messages from all your cousins at once. A Tag Rules tab in the Settings dialog box provides a structure for defining which tags to apply. Tags (one to two word text descriptions) can be applied to email messages automatically at the time MailSteward Pro archives them. While the MailSteward Pro application need not be kept open for the schedules to execute, the MySQL server and database must be accessible for the procedure to succeed. MailStewardPro can grab new messages at any interval between hourly and annually. The Scheduling tab is used to automate ingest of new mail messages. A checkbox at the bottom of this tab instructs MailSteward Pro to delete the selected messages from Mail after they’ve been copied-use that checkbox with extreme caution, because MailSteward Pro can’t move messages back into Apple Mail. A Mailbox view in this tab displays your entire mailbox hierarchy, permitting more focused importing. The Accounts tab displays the email accounts configured in Apple Mail, and allows you to select those you wish to archive into MailSteward Pro. Telling MailSteward Pro what and when to import is handled in the tabs of a Settings dialog box. Back-end data storage notwithstanding, the two versions are identical. MailSteward Pro’s database can be accessed by multiple users on a network and need not reside on the same computer as the MailSetward Pro application. However, what you gain in simplicity you lose in flexibility. This $50 version builds and manages its own SQL database. If the idea of configuring and administering a SQL server turns your hair white, consider the simpler MailSteward (sans Pro). Once set up, the vast possibilities of having your emails in a relational database are at your disposal. MailSteward Pro’s documentation offers excellent guidance here.
MAILSTEWARD PRO APPKED FREE
This certainly doesn’t require a computer science degree, but expect to spend a few hours downloading, installing, and configuring the free One of MailSteward Pro’s greatest flexibilities can be a source of frustration for the uninitiated-users must first set up a MySQL database in which to store the messages copied from Apple Mail. MailSteward Pro delivers, with an investment of time and effort. So what if it’s not the prettiest app at the Harvest Moon Ball? MailStewardPro offers fast and flexible searching of archived emails and its database is open for customization.
