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MailSteward

MailSteward - 8.2.8

Archive your e-mails in a database for later retrieval.

All Time: (4.2)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 8.2.8
Release Date: 2009-12-21
License: Shareware
Downloads (this version): 668
Downloads (all versions): 51,487
Price: $49.95

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Product Description:

MailSteward will archive all of your e-mail in a database for easy retrieval. Click on the Store Email button and MailSteward will go to work storing copies of all your e-mail text, HTML, attachments, and raw source, into a relational database file. MailSteward has a wealth of features for importing, tagging, saving, and exporting, including the ability to export your vital email information to a number of standard data formats.

What's new in this version:

  • New feature to browse database by the size of individual emails.
  • Fix bug in MailSteward and MailSteward Lite that sometimes caused duplicates to be archived when two databases are merged together.
  • Extend time of connection to the MySQL server in MailSteward Pro, so that connection is maintained much longer.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

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MailSteward ReviewA Mac user's "MUST HAVE" application! - Version: 8.2.8, 1/5/2010 10:28PM PST

stormjenkins--2008
The publishers of MailSteward are polite, thorough and absolutely professional. Archiving emails and being able to retrieve them easily is a huge concern for any business person, particularly if you need to present emails as evidence in court. MailSteward has automatic archiving features that are so eacy to set up that you will use them. It could be years later, but you'll be glad you did! I have been using MailSteward since version 4, at least. There have been some great updates and I have happily chosen to purchase each upgrade. Nobody forced me to and I want the publisher to charge for major upgrades, otherwise he won't have the incentive to continue to keep this awesome utility current. Anybody who complains about the pricing and upgrade policy of this company is probably one of those people who love to be victims and seek out opportunities to be affronted. Frankly, I don't see how the publisher is able to give away all the regular in version upgrades that he does and also provide the fastest and most helpful customer support I have ever seen in a computer software publisher. I have been a power user of Macs since April 1984, the month after they were first sold. I have beta tested for most of the major publishers and I test out new software releases the way Elizabeth Taylor tries out new husbands. I have had three or four rather extraordinary support request over the years and each time, I got a detailed and thoughtful response either the same day or the next day. They addressed each of my support issues in great detail. You can tell when a company is emailing you back some broad and pre-written stock answer, while a few companies, like MailSteward's publisher go the extra mile. I really got the feeling that they wanted to solve my problem for me, rather then just sending me some lame response just because they were supposed to do so. I am a thoroughly happy customer and I am not a pushover. MailSteward, as a company, which could be one person or a thousand, has earned my appreciation and loyalty.
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MailSteward Commentarydeceit - Version: 8.2.7, 12/4/2009 01:59AM PST

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fragatat
I am looking for some better way to sort through mail. This seems to be the better choice as to what would work for me. Unfortunately the comments and a few clicks, including on the radio show mp3, got me to a proceed with caution mode. I do not like any form of bait and switch, its clear that that is exactly what this developer did. Too bad the software itself seems good.

Another thing is the use of the word shareware. There is a difference between that and commercial software. You pay for commercial software straight out, while you use shareware until you decide to keep it and keep using it and then you must pay for it. And yes shareware implies the honor system. When a developer does not have the courage to be truthful, and tries to ride the shareware "coolness factor", he/she pushes me further into proceed with caution territory.

I like using good software and I do not mind paying for it. But deceit caused by lack of courage, is still deceit. Moving along...
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MailSteward CommentaryPoor handling of upgrade policy - Version: 7.9.6, 5/9/2009 05:07AM PST

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likes2read
I agree with several of the previous comments. I purchased this product with a "free upgrade" policy only to find out that shortly after, the developer decided to charge for upgrades with no apology. I understand that developers have to make a living, however, deceiving customers may not be the best way. Having lost trust in the developer who I feel handled this very poorly when I contacted him about the upgrade, I stopped using the program.
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