MailSteward 7.4: SQLite update, more features
MailSteward is an app that archives your Apple Mail messages in a relational database so that they can be searched with more options and power than Spotlight can manage on its own.
An updated version released today upgrades the database engine to SQLite 3.3.5.
You can also set and/or buttons for searching more easily, delete attachments and set a default font.
It has also resolved a small problem in importing MailTags.
MailSteward is fifteen US dollars more expensive than Mail Archiver X, but about half the price of FastMailBase.
Which one is the best? Mail Archiver X offers cleaning, MailSteward offers more sophisticated searching as you can see below:
MailSteward is shareware (USD 49.95) and is available from the developer’s web site 
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June 6th, 2006 at 11:49 am
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.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
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.
June 7th, 2006 at 1:51 am
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 =)
June 7th, 2006 at 8:55 am
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.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Version is 7.7.9 since 16 july 2007!
Today featured on http://www.MacZot.com for 34.95/30% off:-)