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Product Description:
Mail Saver saves messages from Apple's Mail into any Finder folder as message (.emlx) files. These saved files are Mail document files and reading them still requires Mail, but Mail is no longer required to store and organize them. This avoids cluttering Mail and allows you to save mail with a relevant project and to archive mail. Saved messages can be Replied, Redirected, Forwarded, Bounced and Printed, but cannot be Junked, Deleted or Flagged. Saved messages also retain attachments, if present.
When Mail Saver saves a message, it simply makes a copy of the message and does not do any file conversion. The only change Mail Saver may make to Mail is to tell Mail to delete its original copy (into the Trash mailbox) after it has been saved. The saved copy of a message is modified so that:
Here is a brief summary of Mail Saver's features:
When Mail Saver saves a message, it simply makes a copy of the message and does not do any file conversion. The only change Mail Saver may make to Mail is to tell Mail to delete its original copy (into the Trash mailbox) after it has been saved. 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).
Here is a brief summary of Mail Saver's features:
- Linked User Mailboxes -- Route messages manually or automatically, using Mail's Rules, to User mailboxes, each linked to a folder. Mail Saver moves the contents of a linked mailbox into its linked folder, opens the folder and labels the moved messages as ready to read. The originals are not immediately erased, but are moved into the Trash mailbox.
- Mail Saver Menu -- Gives you instant access to Mail Saver, Help, Mail-Safe, Spot-Mail and to your linked folders via a menu in the Dock or Script Menu.
- Save Selected Messages -- Selected messages in the Inbox and Sent mailboxes can be saved to any location. The original message is not moved to the Trash mailbox, so you can save multiple copies to multiple locations.
- Spot-Mail -- Spot-Mail uses Spotlight to search the content of .emlx files in the frontmost folder. (Spotlight cannot be used directly to search the content of .emlx files not stored within Mail.)
- Mail-Safe -- Creates an archive of every message sent or received by Mail. The Trash mailbox is linked to a "Mail-Safe" folder of your choice where outdated messages are saved into year-numbered folders containing month-numbered folders. The originals of these messages are erased from Mail. If you have a requirement to maintain an archive of your e-mail, Mail-Safe may meet your needs.
What's new in this version:
- two-pass save & sort replaced with one-pass procedure. Various other small changes.
- Changes to improve stability and increase speed.
- Fixed a problem causing abbreviations not to be used.
- Fixed a problem with bad message subject text causing an error.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
- Apple Mail
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Feedback Summary:
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| Overall Rating: |   (4.0) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | (2.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Documentation could be clearer - Version: 3.5.3, 7/31/2007 05:46AM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
candida1
Hmm - Version: 3.4, 9/22/2006 04:50PM PST
(4 of 5 users found this comment useful)
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.