MailSteward: Powerful Archiving and Searching

MailSteward will archive your Apple Mail email in a relational database so that it can be searched with more options and power than Spotlight can provide on its own.

The stand-alone app copies your email into a SQLite database where you can easily and effectively find particular emails, by sender and recipient and date range and keywords. You can even “roll your own” SQL query.

You can also sort the selected emails, print them, and save them to text files. It features a range of options for exporting — into a MailSteward database file, or into a tab-delimited text file, or to an mbox file, or into an SQL file that can be imported into MySQL.

It claims a much richer feature set than another archiving app, Mail Archiver X:

A fully-featured demo holding up to 1,000 emails is available and the app costs USD 29.95. The developer even offers a money-back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied!

You can read more about MailSteward and download it from the developer’s website.

UPDATE: New version (3.7) released, 20 October 2005.
UPDATE: New version (3.8.1) released, 8 November 2005.
UPDATE: New version (3.9) released, 6 December 2005.

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9 Responses to “MailSteward: Powerful Archiving and Searching”

1. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » FastMailBase: More archiving for Apple Mail says:

   14 October 2005, 11:27 pm at 11:27 pm

   [...] It competes in the “mail archiver” market with MailSteward and Mail Archive X. [...]
2. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailSteward 3.7 says:

   20 October 2005, 2:31 pm at 2:31 pm

   [...] MailSteward, the email archiving and search app, has been updated to version 3.7. [...]
3. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Backing up Apple Mail says:

   4 November 2005, 12:42 am at 12:42 am

   [...] You could use one of the archiving apps like MailSteward or FastMailBase which offer features above and beyond merely backing up your email. They won’t back up your preferences or your Address Book though [...]
4. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailSteward 3.8.1 says:

   9 November 2005, 11:49 am at 11:49 am

   [...] MailSteward, the email archiving and searching app, has been updated. [...]
5. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailSteward 3.9 says:

   7 December 2005, 7:26 am at 7:26 am

   [...] MailSteward, an archiving and searching app for your emails, has been updated. [...]
6. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailSteward reviewed by MacZealots says:

   13 December 2005, 3:50 pm at 3:50 pm

   [...] Justin Williams at MacZealots.com has written a lengthy review of MailSteward, an email archiving and search application that works well with Mail.app. [...]
7. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Mail Archiver X: Archive, search, clean your emails says:

   11 January 2006, 12:33 am at 12:33 am

   [...] Mail Archiver X’s main competitors are MailSteward and FastMailBase. [...]
8. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailSteward 4.0 says:

   19 January 2006, 12:36 am at 12:36 am

   [...] The email archiving and searching app MailSteward has been updated. [...]
9. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailSteward 5.0 says:

   30 January 2006, 10:51 am at 10:51 am

   [...] MailSteward, a powerful email archiving app, has been updated. [...]