• Safely archive your large volume of vital email information.
• Easily access your email database with fast, sophisticated searching.
• Protect your essential email data from data format obsolescence.
• Get rid of duplicate emails.
• Satisfy Federal legal requirements mandated by
the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).
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MailSteward is now compatible with OS X 10.7 (Lion)!
New feature to log duplicate emails skipped during archiving!
New feature to save all attachments of selected emails to separate files!
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With a single click on the Archive button, MailSteward will archive all of the email in all of your Apple Mail accounts into a database for easy retrieval. One click and MailSteward will go to work storing copies of all your email text, HTML, attachments, and raw source, into a relational database. MailSteward has a wealth of features for importing, tagging, saving, and exporting, including the ability to export your vital email information in a number of standard data formats.
To really understand just how invaluable and easy to use MailSteward™ is, Download the free version of MailSteward or MailSteward Pro and try it out on your email. The free version is full-featured, but archives a maximum of 15,000 emails.
MailSteward comes in four versions, MailStewardApp (the App Store version) ($19.99), MailSteward Lite ($24.95), MailSteward ($49.95), and MailSteward Pro ($99.95). MailSteward Lite and MailStewardApp have the same functionality. The only difference is that MailSteward Lite can be upgraded to MailSteward for $24.95. The app store version of MailSteward cannot be upgraded. There is also a bulk discount for purchases of 10 to 20 copies of either MailSteward or MailSteward Pro, and 50 user site licenses are available for both products.
MailSteward Lite and the App Store version of MailSteward have all of the archiving and searching functionality of MailSteward, but lack the advanced search, the ability to save frequently used searches, and the features of exporting, and merging databases. MailSteward Pro has all of the features of MailSteward, but uses the MySQL Server software for its database, rather than the SQLite database engine used by MailSteward and MailSteward Lite. Regular MailSteward, using SQLite, can handle large volumes of email, 100,000 or more, but for very large volumes that require an industrial grade relational database server, MailSteward Pro is the answer. MailSteward Pro requires MySQL database server software to be installed and running.
An upgrade of MailSteward to MailSteward Pro is available for $49.95. If you are a registered user of MailSteward, click on upgrades and follow the instructions to obtain the latest version.
If you are already a MailSteward Pro user, and you are upgrading to Snow Leopard, click here to make Snow Leopard work with your existing MySQL installation.
Feature Comparison Chart
| Features | MailSteward | MailStewardApp | MailSteward Pro |
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| select by date range | ![]() |
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| search by combo of to, from, subject, mailbox, body, attachments | ![]() |
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| fast search of large volume of email | ![]() |
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| customize sql select statement | ![]() |
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| sort by from, to, date, subject, mailbox, no. of attachments | ![]() |
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| click on attachment to launch or save it | ![]() |
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| Search binary attachments that contain text | ![]() |
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| save or print selected emails as formatted, sorted text | ![]() |
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| Schedule to automatically archive email | ![]() |
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| add searchable tags to email: category, key words, notes, & priority | ![]() |
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| export to mbox file | ![]() |
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| export to SQL file, importable by MySQL | ![]() |
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| export to tab-delimited text file | ![]() |
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| export to MailSteward SQLite database file | ![]() |
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| save searches for frequent use | ![]() |
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| advanced search | ![]() |
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| merge database files | ![]() |
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| set up rules for auto tagging of email | ![]() |
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| uses SQLite as database engine | ![]() |
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| price | $49.95 | $19.99 | $99.95 |
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