Usefulness of this app. - Fred E--2008

Why is this app potentially useful? Because, unlike Entourage and some other email clients, Mail cannot save individual messages as files that can be put into finder folders with related materials (like word processing and spreadsheet documents). That capability would make it easy for one to go directly to a message from within a topical folder rather that searching for it in Mail's mbox schema. However, I am afraid to try the app for fear of disabling my Mail's mailbox system.

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Tuesday, November 07 2006 @ 01:52 PM PST

Definitely useful - candida1

I downloaded the free trial of this the day after the stupid OSX mail programme decided it had too much to think about and simply wiped my saved e-mails, apparently a feature of the program inherent in setting a maximum memory size way back when machines were more limited and not hunting through the code to improve it as hardware has improved. It fails like this with NO forewarning!! You just come in one morning and switch on to emply mailboxes. Apple blithely tell you to remember to empty the trash and not keep everything in your inbox, like you're a four year old. I had family emails with attached pictures etc that I wanted to keep. Fortunately I had an overnight backup.

So I can take everything in a particular mailbox with this program and say "archive it" and create a neat folder with all the mails in it (so I have one folder on my hard disk for each of the mailboxes I archived, mirroring my mail structue nice and intuitively) and in list view I can see everything in that folder arranged by date, just like in my mailbox. I can reply to them or forward them even. Why on earth would I save things as an image file and hunt around using spotlight? Bleah.

The OH has just had his mailboxes wiped by Mail overnight, I think through the exact same limitation, which has reminded me it's a couple of years since I did my last archive, ad I'm here to buy the full version. It caused my mail program no problem whatsoever, it seemed a nice, tidy, stable app that had not a glitch.

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Monday, July 30 2007 @ 11:19 PM PDT