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Rocketbox
Rocketbox
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Rocketbox

Version 1.0.8

Powerful e-mail search for Apple Mail.

3.6
Based on 8 user ratesRead reviews & comments
$14.95
This app is no longer supported by it's developer. You can find similar apps here.

Rocketbox overview

Rocketbox is a powerful, new way of searching your e-mail in Apple Mail.app. It's never been faster or easier to find what you need.

  • Search by person - Rocketbox provides intelligent search-by-person suggestions, making it easy to see your e-mail correspondence with a person. Rocketbox's engine analyzes your e-mail correspondence providing a list of important contacts when you search.
  • Powerful filters to handle lots of e-mail - Powerful filters make it easy to deal with lots of e-mail. Filter by time, person, folder, account and more.
  • Inline search previews - Inline previews show you exactly why a messages was found, making it easier to find what you need. The highlighted sections help you improve your queries and takes the guess work out of using search.
  • Advanced search support - Rocketbox supports a sophisticated and powerful query language for more advanced users.
  • Save time managing e-mail - Spend less time manually filing messages and instead use search to find what you need.

What’s new in version 1.0.8

Updated on Sep 22 2011

Version 1.0.8:
  • Compatibility with OS X 10.7 Lion

Please note: Rocketbox is no longer being actively developed or supported. For more details, see this page.

Information

License

Shareware

Size

3.6 MB

Downloads

5463

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • Intel 32
  • Mac OS X 10.7 or later
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Ocean1204
Ocean1204
Apr 15 2015
1.0.8
2.0
Apr 15 2015
2.0
Version: 1.0.8
not compatible (yet) with Mail 8.2 :(
Flash1296
Flash1296
Mar 24 2011
1.0.6
3.5
Mar 24 2011
3.5
Version: 1.0.6
The mod to v. 1.0.6 works — in letting RocketBox do its searches, but I can no longer OPEN the mail found ! Hmm.
Flash1296
Flash1296
Mar 22 2011
1.0.6
3.5
Mar 22 2011
3.5
Version: 1.0.6
While robotank's tip, I am sure works; it is way over the heads of 99% of the purchasers of this excellent Mail bundle. Updating Rocketbox is obviously a no-brainer. PLEASE update !
Robotank
Robotank
Mar 22 2011
1.0.6
0.0
Mar 22 2011
0.0
Version: 1.0.6
See here for directions on getting bundles to load in new versions of Mail by adding strings to the bundle's info.plist files: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100823103751355 This hint is written for GrowlMail, but it works with any bundle. I just got Rocketbox and a couple other bundles tweaked for 10.6.7/Mail 4.5 without issue.
dwp-1
dwp-1
Mar 17 2011
1.0.6
0.0
Mar 17 2011
0.0
Version: 1.0.6
No updates in almost 5 months, I'd stay away from Rocketbox. It appears to be one of those version 1 only app's. Very disappointed because is has such great potential.
Flash1296
Flash1296
Nov 11 2010
1.0.5
3.5
Nov 11 2010
3.5
Version: 1.0.5
Upgrading to OS X 10.6.5 upgrades MAIL to Version 4.4 (build 1082) Now Rocketbox is auto-disabled by MAIL>
Frankns
Frankns
Sep 21 2010
1.0.5
3.0
Sep 21 2010
3.0
Version: 1.0.5
Definitely resource intense! I am impressed with the features, functions, and speed. But the fact that my CPU jumps up some 20 degrees hotter when RocketBox runs really surprises me. What is happening behind the scenes to be this resource intense? (MBP 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB, 10.6.4) As no one else has reported this, it's possible that it is something in my configuration.
dwp-1
dwp-1
Aug 13 2010
1.0.5
0.0
Aug 13 2010
0.0
Version: 1.0.5
They don't seem to be in any hurry to update their new Mail search product ;(
Andrew-Scott
Andrew-Scott
Jul 21 2010
1.0.5
0.0
Jul 21 2010
0.0
Version: 1.0.5
This looks very promising. After taking on a new roll at work I'm seeing my email traffic increase markedly. Rocketbox looks like it'll make my email more manageable. However first impressions are that it could do with some interface improvements. The developers website shows some of its powerful advanced search abilities yet there is no obvious way to discover these from within the software. In fact there's no Help feature in Rocketbox at all nor a link to the website. Surely it would be a simple matter to add a "cheat sheet" of search terms. It would also be nice to be able to check the version number or check for updates from within the software. A panel in Mails preferences would seem to be a good way of achieving many of these things. Finally, presentation of search results could be more efficient. Rocketbox often shows multiple hits for the same message as well as content duplicated in quoted text across discussion threads. Abbreviated headers are shown but without date and time. Adding this information would help a great deal. Allowing search results to be threaded might be even better. Perhaps offering three sort results instead of two would be one way of doing this: Relevance, Date, Thread.
Peternsteinmetz
Peternsteinmetz
Jun 20 2010
1.0.5
5.0
Jun 20 2010
5.0
Version: 1.0.5
Very handy for rapid searches. Responsive developer that rapidly fixed for 10.6.4
Flash1296
Flash1296
Jun 17 2010
1.0.5
3.5
Jun 17 2010
3.5
Version: 1.0.5
Extraordinarily useful if you are a serious email person.
7h31ll3g4l
7h31ll3g4l
Jun 15 2010
1.0.4
0.0
Jun 15 2010
0.0
Version: 1.0.4
hi... please do you fix for snowleopard 10.6.4? current version don't working thanks
TomEck
TomEck
Feb 25 2010
1.0.4
0.0
Feb 25 2010
0.0
Version: 1.0.4
This is a quite interesting plugin and it integrates well with Mail.app. However, I agree with DRROBERT that the search, while very fast, is extremely imprecise. It seems to me that Rocketbox does not index local stored emails correctly at the moment. I will keep an eye on this, certainly.
Billindg
Billindg
Feb 17 2010
1.0.2
4.0
Feb 17 2010
4.0
Version: 1.0.2
Searches are very fast. For users with large mailboxes, Boolean search capabilities are critical to providing efficient searches. Interface still needs some tweaks, e.g., messages with 4 recipients show up 4 times in the search lists, but Rocketbox searches are already my default search mode. It is easy to switch back to the native search on the fly. Version 1.02 has some important bug fixes. If you were unsatisfied with earlier versions give this one a try. I'd give 5 stars if it weren't for the recipient problem.
Mayersj1
Mayersj1
Feb 5 2010
1.0.1
4.0
Feb 5 2010
4.0
Version: 1.0.1
After an initial issue with Rocketbox 1.0 and Espionage (Rocketbox wouldn't index when the Mail folder was managed by Espionage), the 1.0.1 version has worked flawlessly for me. There are a few UI changes that would make this perfect and the developer is very responsive to suggestions. I find that the results that come back from Rocketbox are pretty much right on (with the help of it's advanced search syntax) whereas Mail.app's default search would leave me hunting through long lists of messages without much other filtering to be done. Looking excitedly forward to what the future holds for Rocketbox!
Tom-mcdermot
Tom-mcdermot
Feb 2 2010
1.0.1
5.0
Feb 2 2010
5.0
Version: 1.0.1
Absolutely great for looking up archived emails. Developer is very responsive as well
Drrobert
Drrobert
Jan 30 2010
1.0.1
2.0
Jan 30 2010
2.0
Version: 1.0.1
Excellent speed and interface. Like the tight and automatic integration with mail. A couple of dealbreakers: - the search itself, while very fast, is extremely imprecise.. returning far less accurate results than the mail program itself. - When I search for clusters of email, it is usually because I want to do something with them (delete, save, etc). With this app I have to search for them and then search again in Mail in order to perform a function on them. These two things need to be improved before the app is worth the price.
Drdul
Drdul
Jan 27 2010
1.0
0.0
Jan 27 2010
0.0
Version: 1.0
I would welcome an improved search capability within Mail. I wanted to like Rocketbox, but I found that I could not adequately define search terms to find what I wanted. For example, I was searching for messages related to "parking" sent to a client in "Anytown" (name changed to protect the innocent). Rocketbox returned messages with the word "park," even when I enclosed the word parking in quotes in the search field. I was also unable to limit the search to messages sent to the "anytown" domain, and instead would get all messages that mentioned Anytown. In comparison, a search in Mail sorted by rank found the messages I wanted. I like the inline preview that Rocketbox offers, but Mail gave me better search results and was not any slower than Rocketbox. In fact, because Mail searches immediately while Rocketbox requires that I press the Return key to initiate the search, one could argue that Mail is faster. I tried several other searches with comparable results. So for now, I'll stick with Mail.
Robotank
Robotank
Jan 26 2010
1.0
0.0
Jan 26 2010
0.0
Version: 1.0
Seems to work very well. Search results are instant and nicely laid out in message previews. The numerous possible criteria certainly make it a snap to find messages. One downside: it's written in Java, and uses a lot of RAM as a result. Otherwise, I quite like it.
Sherman-Wilcox
Sherman-Wilcox
Jan 26 2010
1.0
0.0
Jan 26 2010
0.0
Version: 1.0
Great stuff.
Ocean1204
Ocean1204
Apr 15 2015
2.0
Apr 15 2015
2.0
Version: null
Flash1296
Flash1296
Mar 22 2011
3.5
Mar 22 2011
3.5
Version: null
Frankns
Frankns
Sep 21 2010
3.0
Sep 21 2010
3.0
Version: null
Peternsteinmetz
Peternsteinmetz
Jun 20 2010
5.0
Jun 20 2010
5.0
Version: null
Billindg
Billindg
Feb 17 2010
4.0
Feb 17 2010
4.0
Version: null
Mayersj1
Mayersj1
Feb 5 2010
4.0
Feb 5 2010
4.0
Version: null
Tom-mcdermot
Tom-mcdermot
Feb 2 2010
5.0
Feb 2 2010
5.0
Version: null
Drrobert
Drrobert
Jan 30 2010
2.0
Jan 30 2010
2.0
Version: null
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