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.

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MailSteward, an email archiving and search app, has been updated.

The new version (5.5.0) features an in-built HTML viewer, so that launching an external browser is not longer necessary. It will also now display statistics after storing messages and checks for invalid email files while parsing.

A “Find” function has been added for searching within email and raw source views.

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MailSteward, a powerful email archiving app, has been updated.

One hardly need mention that it is now recompiled as a universal binary (what isn’t these days?).

Other improvements in the new release include better display of non-English text, a better export mbox function that imports back into Mail.app correctly, a bugfix for the omission of CC: addresses and other minor bugfixes.

The developer Pubblog.com produces a useful chart that demonstrates the range of MailSteward‘s features (although listing FastMailBase for comparison would be even more helpful):

Click for a larger view (Don’t be shy. I’ve got bandwidth to burn these days)

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Justin Williams at MacZealots.com has written a lengthy review of MailSteward, an email archiving and search application that works well with Mail.app.

In short, he likes it, but finds problems with its interface and usability.

MailSteward, the email archiving and searching app, has been updated.

The new version fixes a bug in the resizing of windows, adds a font menu, adds the ability to save all window sizes and positions, fixes some incorrectly parsed date formats and more.

You can get the updated app from the developer’s web site.