Comments on: MailSteward 7.4: SQLite update, more features

By: Olligarski

Olligarski — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:32:57 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:55:36 +0000

It’s a good question.

I don’t use it regularly myself, but for people who do, I guess there are two main gains:

(i) A backup of their mail and attachments in another app.

(ii) Smarter searching, esp. the ability to construct quite complicated Boolean searches of the kind that Spotlgiht is unable to perform.

Some people will also value the wider options for exporting mail in different formats.

By: Poindexter Schwartz

Poindexter Schwartz — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:51:30 +0000

A simple, perhaps stupid, question… I have nearly 1 million pieces of email in Mail.app. On a PowerBook G4 with 2GB ram, I have no particular problem making folders using a variety of tweaks and automagic sort/filter rules (thanks mailtags) and no particular time issues with using spotlight to find anything/everything. It’s not INSTANT, but it’s pretty fast (5-6 seconds tops to find any given piece of mail).

What exactly is the benefit of exporting all this into MailSteward? If there is some major search/performance plus, I am willing to give it a spin, but mostly it just seems like getting Yet Another App to clutter, confuse and spread out my workflows, instead of having everything in one place.

Am I missing the big picture somehow?

Enlightenement always appreciated, cool site btw =)

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:54:08 +0000

Dennis. I’m afraid that I have no idea. I have nothing like the amount of email that you do.

Perhaps a browse of the MailSteward forums will turn up an answer.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:49:01 +0000

What are the performance issues associated with MailSteward when it stores the E-Mails in the SQLite database? I have 10GB of E-Mail without attachments, and if I use MailSteward will I end up using another 10GB of disk space to store the SQL database? I have never used the software, and I was just wondering how useful it really would be with large sets of E-Mail.