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Mail Archiver X gets face-lift, new features

mailarchiverxMail Archiver is an app that archives and cleans the mailboxes of Mail.app (and PowerMail, Eudora, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Entourage).

Version 1.5b4 features a new icon and interface. The new interface has been simplified and beautified and the odd floating window of previous versions is gone.

It offers full support for Mail 2.0 and Filemaker 8. The attachments are now saved to the archive and the app boasts better MIME handling overall.

Mail Archiver X’s main competitors in the archiving stakes are MailSteward and FastMailBase.

In contrast to these, Mail Archiver X promotes itself as “the only mail archival application, which also offers cleaning of mails”. This means the ability to strip HTML, control tags and various other characters out of your emails, so that only clean copies of the useful material are retained:

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Mail Archiver X is shareware (USD 34.95), fifteen dollars cheaper than Mail Steward (USD 49.95). FastMailBase is about twice the cost of Mail Steward (USD 97).

Which one is the best? MailSteward offers more sophisticated searching. Mail Archiver X offers cleaning. It depends on you and what you want from an archiving app.

Mail Archiver X is available from the developer’s web site .archiving, backup, mail.app, apple mail, cleaning, html, plugins

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2 Responses to “Mail Archiver X gets face-lift, new features”

  1. Hugh McMillan says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 7:44 am

    MailSteward isn’t $29.95 anymore, sadly, as I would buy it if it were. When version 7 was announced the price was raised 66% !! I was waiting for the ability to archive individual mailboxes to purchase it and when that ability was added so was the price increase.

    From their website;
    To really understand just how invaluable MailStewardâ„¢ is, you have to use it, get used to it. Download the version 7.3 demo and try it out on your email. The demo is full-featured, but will only store a maximum of 1,000 emails. If you like it, buy it for $49.95, and if, for any reason, it doesn’t work for you, send an email and your money will be cheerfully refunded. A site license for up to 50 users is also available for $400.

  2. Tim says:
    April 19th, 2006 at 9:00 am

    Hugh, thanks for the correction. I’m behind the times!

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