Just when I thought I had posted enough for today, Andreas Amann releases a updated, Leopard-friendly version of his most excellent Mail Scripts.

Mail Scripts is a collection of eleven applescripts, bundled up in a user-friendly installer, which will remove duplicate messages in Mail.app, create rules from a selected email faster, archive messages, change SMTP servers on the fly, schedule emails for delivery later and much, much more.

They are now compatible with Leopard, although Andreas adds a note of caution about two of the scripts:

When sending messages other than text/plain (i.e., HTML messages and messages with attachments) using either the “Send all Drafts” or “Schedule Delivery” scripts, Mail might fail to actually send the message and present a dialog telling that the message failed to be sent using the server “null” - re-selecting the correct SMTP server will cause the message to be sent as intended. This seems to be a bug in Mail with the application forgetting the correct SMTP server settings which hopefully will be fixed in a future system upgrade.

Mail Scripts is donation-ware and available from Andreas’ web site . No mail user should be without them.

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Graeme Mathieson has produced a great tutorial on using Mail.app as an offline archive for Gmail, complete with step-by-step instructions on creating the rules to push emails into the right folders and screenshots.

He recently switched to using Google apps for your domain but like any prudent Scot wanted access to his email when he is not online and “a backup should something go wrong” (see further — “Gmail user gets kneecapped” and the Gmail “Black Hole treatment”).

Nice.

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A new version of MailSteward, the email archiving and search app, has been released.

MailSteward 6.0 has a redesigned storage process which parses and stores your email simultaneously rather than in two stages. It will now show you which message is being processed and allow you to stop and restart the archiving process at any stage.

The new version also offers the ability to hide, bring to front, stop, or quit the app during processing and will display a list of invalid email files after the Store operation.

MailSteward is shareware (USD 29.95) and is available from the developer’s web site .

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Nicholas Cole emailed me to share two great tips for Apple Mail.

Tip One — How to set up a local IMAP archive that both Mail.app and Thunderbird can read.

Tip Two — An AppleScript that will file emails into an archive by month and year.

All presented in delightfully nostalgic retro HTML!

Nice. Thanks, Nicholas.

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The last time I blogged about Mail Archiver X, it was not compatible with Mail 2.0’s new file system.

A new version was released today which offers full support for Mail.app emails in 10.4, a new interface, support for Filemaker 8 and other improvements.

Mail Archiver X works with Mail.app, PowerMail, Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape, Thunderbird, the standard mbox format and Entourage.

Its functions are controlled by a main toolbar:

It archives your emails using a database called Valentina by Paradigma Software. The speed of this database and a reduced reliance on AppleScript make Mail Archiver X run faster than comparable apps, the developers claim.

Backup options include the ability to select with mailboxes are archived. The database can be exported in Filemaker, Text, Valentina or xml format.

It also also allows you to browse and search the email in the database.

Mail Archiver X’s main competitors 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:

Mail Archiver X is shareware (USD 34.95), five dollars more expensive than Mail Steward but much cheaper than FastMailBase (USD 97).

Which one is the best? MailSteward offers more sophisticated searching. Mail Archiver X offers cleaning. It depends on your needs.

Mail Archiver X is available from the developer’s web site.

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The Tao of Mac provides an AppleScript that will archive your emails into mailboxes by year and by quarter.

Designed to be run via a Mail.app rule or through Mail Act-on, it will need a little bit of obvious tweaking if you plan to use it yourself.

It is based on another AppleScript that does something similar.

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