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Apple's Mail works wonderfully to send and receive messages, but using it for long-term storage of email has undesirable consequences. Mail Saver solves this problem by moving messages into the Finder for long-term storage. It does this by linking mailboxes to Finder folders. When Mail Saver saves the contents of a mailbox, it copies its messages into its linked folder, then moves the original messages to Mail's Trash. The linked folders can be located anywhere you wish, such as with a project, an account or an interest group.
Mail Saver simply copies a message without doing any file conversion, thus a saved copy of a message is simply a Mail document (.emlx) file which must be opened with Mail. These saved documents may be Replied, Redirected, Forwarded, Bounced and Printed by Mail just like any other message. (But, they cannot be Junked, Deleted or Flagged). Saved messages also retain attachments, if present. Searching saved messages in Leopard is easy, simply use Spotlight. The saved copy of a message is modified so that:
Mail Saver uses Apple's Mail as its interface and its action is determined by the mailbox selected in Mail's frontmost Viewer.
This application is fully functional for a period of 30 days following installation, after which continued use requires purchase of an activation key (US$9.95).
Mail Saver simply copies a message without doing any file conversion, thus a saved copy of a message is simply a Mail document (.emlx) file which must be opened with Mail. These saved documents may be Replied, Redirected, Forwarded, Bounced and Printed by Mail just like any other message. (But, they cannot be Junked, Deleted or Flagged). Saved messages also retain attachments, if present. Searching saved messages in Leopard is easy, simply use Spotlight. The saved copy of a message is modified so that:
- The file name is the header's subject;
- The modification date is the header's Date Sent; and
- The comment is the header's To: address (for sent mail) or From: address (for received mail).
Mail Saver uses Apple's Mail as its interface and its action is determined by the mailbox selected in Mail's frontmost Viewer.
This application is fully functional for a period of 30 days following installation, after which continued use requires purchase of an activation key (US$9.95).
What's new in this version:
- 3.8.2 - Fixed a problem that shows up in Snow Leopard.
- 3.8.1 - Fixed a problem with a message Subject beginning with colon.
- Added a Save Sel Msgs... menu item that lets you save selected messages from any mailbox to any location.
- Added a White Box menu item that lets you safely convert a selected Blue mailbox to a White mailbox. (White mailboxes contain only sub-mailboxes. You can not drag & drop messages into them, only into their sub-mailboxes.)
- Changed the method of modifying Mailbox Behaviors. The Mailbox Behaviors "Store deleted messages on server" and "Store sent messages on server" are no longer modified.
- This, and future versions, will no longer run after an upgrade to the next version.
- Removed mailbox links no longer appear in the Trash, they are just removed.
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
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Apple Mail
- At least Mac OS X 10.4.11
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Documentation could be clearer 
- Version: 3.5.3, 7/31/2007 05:46AM PST
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candida1
Hmm - Version: 3.4, 9/22/2006 04:50PM PST
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Matsoi
Don't understand why this application should be useful?? Sorry!
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- Definitely useful
- Usefulness of this app. (3 replies)
After you've done all the install stuff, as in the "Help" instructions, choose or make a mailbox with the e-mails you want to back up: this mailbox will be emptied into Trash as each mail is backed up. Select this mailbox: mail is now your front app, which it HAS TO BE for Mail Saver to work; the new instructions don't really spell this out. Then click-and-hold on the icon in the dock, which brings up the usual dock options plus mailsaver, help, and spotmail. Got to mailsaver and release. It'll then (give it a moment) ask where you want to save the mail in that mailbox to an you can choose or create a file as normal, and then set it going. You might need to launch it several times depending on how much is in your selected mailbox (it does 100 per launch), but trust it, it will just trundle away in sequence until they are all done. That's it. Now, or when you've backed up your disk, you can empty the archived mails from the Mail program Trash. Repeat until satisfied.
I'd never use the "action" folder or much automation on this, since I never want to archive "everything up to today" and tend to keep my archives in "family 2005" "family 2006" etc folders, so I make and delete mailboxes to back up as I need them. A bit more laborious, and perhaps not using the program in the fullest or most elegant way, but it does what I need it to do, and it seems a very reasonable price to prevent a major problem.