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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January 8th, 2011 at 2:38 am
is there a way to schedule archiving? I need a solution that will back up Apple Mail every day, but then remove emails that are older than 9 months old from Apple Mail, leaving the backups safe.