Mail Archiver serves as a companion to the user's current email application/client, allowing consolidation, archiving, cleaning, formatting, and permanent storage of emails. Emails may be saved in the application's native database format (Valentina), or in Filemaker, PDF, mbox, MySql, Text, or XML database formats. Archiving emails from a variety of email applications into a single database, the app prevents accidental deletions, facilitates quick searches, and eliminates the storage size limits imposed by many email apps and companies. By saving emails in a single, standardized
What's New
Version 2.7.3.3.380:
Fixed a problem where the scrolling in the mail listbox didn't stop
Added a menu item for showing the session logs on disk
When cleaning odd html there is no longer a StackOverflowException
When the trial is expired the lozenges in the window showing the remaining time now show up correctly
When exporting to PDF the attachments aren’t longer exported 2 times
Improved error handling when exporting to Filemaker
Exporting to Filemaker with ODBC doesn’t work on 10.6. Not fixable
Sorting by Mailbox, Date works again
Fixed a problem finding Postbox mailboxes
Improved error handling when sending session logs
Fixed another problem with licensing
Version 2.7.3.3.380:
Fixed a problem where the scrolling in the mail listbox didn't stop
Added a menu item for showing the session logs on disk
When cleaning odd html there is no longer a StackOverflowException
When the trial is expired the lozenges in the window showing the remaining time now show up correctly
When exporting to PDF the attachments aren’t more...
Any complains or new ideas you can address to developer (Beatrix). She will reply with right solution in no time. This is my experience. I don't mind look if the app does what is intended for. And Mail Archiver X does it in a brilliant way. The look will getting nicer an nicer with each update (as well as fonts will getting bigger with each update). There is no such quick and efficient mail archiver on the market. Almost perfect.
This is quite a nice idea and much better done than many of the other comparable apps. BUT...
First, it is written in RealBasic and it looks really ugly. I doubt the dev has anytime anything heard of Apples GUI-guidelines. Besides all the personal impressions, it has such drawbacks like a logfile INSIDE the app itself.
Very nice idea but needs still quite a lot of work!
[Version 1.2b3]
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Anonymouscommented on 12 Oct 2004
I'd be glad to tell you how to make it better.
1. (BIG required fix) Make the browser window resizable. I bought a 17 inch PB so I could use the nice big screen.
2. Header Graphic: Gone! Why do I need that? Is it a web site? No its software. The graphic wastes a ton of screen space.
3. Header Buttons: SHould be the standard OS X toolbar, including the ability to hide them using the toolbar button. SHould have the standard options of text only / icon only / icon & text and would be nice to have the option for small icons.
4. Border between the content & then actual window edge: Gone. Brushed metal apps sometimes use the border, but most Aqua apps don't. Just open text edit to see what I mean. Borders accomplish nothing & waste space.
5. "Entry View": OS X Has default widgets for tabs. Those should be used rather than graphics. This feels like a web page to me & makes me uncomfortable. It takes me "out of OS X". I think sometimes software developers want to be "artists" and make pretty things for people to look at rather than keeping people from having to see anything new. I prefer when every app has similar recognizable features & (honestly no offense) don't care much about seeing the developers creativity or personality in an app.
6. "Entry View" again: Would be nice to be able to collapse the header to just the date sent, from field & subject. It takes up so much space as it is.
7. "Entry View" again: Why the use of fields in the "Header Detail" tab? I guess I could see it for the search option, but it makes it impossible to copy complete header text.
8. "List View": Headers use weird titles. Stick with the standard "to, from, subject, date" (date has an E on the end most of the time). Columns usually hi-light when you sort by them, your app does not. It would be far better to see this list view located in a split view above the "Entry View" so that both "screens" are combined into one. (See Apple's Mail.App for example)
9. Tools palate: Not too horrible, but I'd prefer smaller icons & a vertical toolbar option. See Photoshop as an example.
10. For more research & apple standards this is a great place to start: http://developer.apple.com/ue/
After downloading and unzipping the folder, I try to open Mail Archiver by double-clicking on it. It won't open, and I get a message stating that either the app is mssing elements or is damaged. Do I need filemaker to open the app?
G5-2.0, 6 gb of Ram, and using current Mac OS 10.4.8.
Thank you for the response, but I'm already using the most recent version of Stuffit Expander. I'd downloaded your app again today, and when I click on its icon, I get the same error message about it being damaged or not complete. The icon for your app is a generic one, i.e., the one with the pad, pencil, etc. Is this any indication that there's a problem?
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Mail Archiver serves as a companion to the user's current email application/client, allowing consolidation, archiving, cleaning, formatting, and permanent storage of emails. Emails may be saved in the application's native database format (Valentina), or in Filemaker, PDF, mbox, MySql, Text, or XML database formats. Archiving emails from a variety of email applications into a single database, the app prevents accidental deletions, facilitates quick searches, and eliminates the storage size limits imposed by many email apps and companies. By saving emails in a single, standardized format, users are ensured that they can read all their emails, even those from legacy applications, from which they have subsequently migrated.
An ideal email management and archive solution.
Protect and save all emails in a single archive folder.
Archives emails from the following formats: Entourage, Eudora, Mail, Outlook, Postbox, Powermail, Thunderbird, and standard mbox.
Exports emails to the following formats: Valentina (native), Filemaker, PDF, mbox, MySql, Text, or XML.
Built-in email database browser.
Cleans emails of unnecessary characters and code.
Exchange is supported for Apple Mail, and Microsoft Entourage and Outlook.
Filemaker support, when using the Filemaker Version 10 browser.
Any other database will be able to import XML or text files.
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Jocatra reviewed on 06 Jan 2012
Without doubts, I recommend the application.
-13
Dejmac reviewed on 14 Nov 2011
+2
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Peterpan23 reviewed on 10 Nov 2010
1. (deal-breaker) REALbasic is unacceptable slow on my Core2Duo 2.33 with 3GB RAM and ultrafast Seagate Momentus XT 500GB under 10.6.4, 64bit
2. (nice to have) no Boolean search strings like "Peter -Mueller" (=show me all mails with the name "Peter" but not with the name "Mueller")
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+3
First, it is written in RealBasic and it looks really ugly. I doubt the dev has anytime anything heard of Apples GUI-guidelines. Besides all the personal impressions, it has such drawbacks like a logfile INSIDE the app itself.
Very nice idea but needs still quite a lot of work!
+2
1. (BIG required fix) Make the browser window resizable. I bought a 17 inch PB so I could use the nice big screen.
2. Header Graphic: Gone! Why do I need that? Is it a web site? No its software. The graphic wastes a ton of screen space.
3. Header Buttons: SHould be the standard OS X toolbar, including the ability to hide them using the toolbar button. SHould have the standard options of text only / icon only / icon & text and would be nice to have the option for small icons.
4. Border between the content & then actual window edge: Gone. Brushed metal apps sometimes use the border, but most Aqua apps don't. Just open text edit to see what I mean. Borders accomplish nothing & waste space.
5. "Entry View": OS X Has default widgets for tabs. Those should be used rather than graphics. This feels like a web page to me & makes me uncomfortable. It takes me "out of OS X". I think sometimes software developers want to be "artists" and make pretty things for people to look at rather than keeping people from having to see anything new. I prefer when every app has similar recognizable features & (honestly no offense) don't care much about seeing the developers creativity or personality in an app.
6. "Entry View" again: Would be nice to be able to collapse the header to just the date sent, from field & subject. It takes up so much space as it is.
7. "Entry View" again: Why the use of fields in the "Header Detail" tab? I guess I could see it for the search option, but it makes it impossible to copy complete header text.
8. "List View": Headers use weird titles. Stick with the standard "to, from, subject, date" (date has an E on the end most of the time). Columns usually hi-light when you sort by them, your app does not. It would be far better to see this list view located in a split view above the "Entry View" so that both "screens" are combined into one. (See Apple's Mail.App for example)
9. Tools palate: Not too horrible, but I'd prefer smaller icons & a vertical toolbar option. See Photoshop as an example.
10. For more research & apple standards this is a great place to start: http://developer.apple.com/ue/
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G5-2.0, 6 gb of Ram, and using current Mac OS 10.4.8.
+2