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eMessage Archiver (eMA)

by John Carlsen, Boston

A Macintosh email archiving system, for several email and newsgroup applications.

Latest version: eMA 4.10 beta 5    (May 2, 2007)

Email applications supported are: Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage, Eudora, Mailsmith, PowerMail, Emailer 2.
Newsgroup applications supported are: NewsWatcher, Thoth, MacSoup, & Hogwasher.

Shareware: free to try while evaluating it, and $15 only if you decide to use it (see below).
Users' Group: Support & Discussion about using eMA, and the place to make problem reports (see below.)

Description

The eMessage Archiver system, also known as eMA, removes messages from your email and newsgroup applications, and saves them in a database, where they can be browsed, searched, sorted, and viewed in several list and single message layouts. Individual messages can also be replied to or transferred back to a supported email application.

eMA's main purpose is to make your email application less crowded, so you don't always have to deal with many years of messages, most of which you will probably never need immediate access to.

Although all messages in specific folders or mailboxes may be archived, you can set an age limit, so only messages older than that will be moved to the eMA database. The younger email, say sent in the past year or the past couple months, will stay in your email application.

There are also several other filters (rules) to select when archiving, so that only messages of a given folder/mailbox, priority, flagged, or other status, like read or sent will be removed to the archive database.

A complete eMA User Guide is supplied.

Downloads

        - Newest Beta Test version: eMA 4.10b5  (uploaded on May 2, 2007)

          This version includes the eMA Filer application, an eMA-only version of FileMaker Pro 8.5, for OS X 10.3.9 or later.
          (Can be used optionally with the commercial applications FileMaker Pro 7, 8, or 8.5,  instead of eMA Filer.)
          Final version may also support other OS and FileMaker versions.

        - Current Final Release:      eMA 4.02     (released September 1, 2005)

          This version includes two, separately downloadable, versions of eMA Solution application, for OS 9 and OS X.
          They are eMA-only versions of FileMaker Pro 5 (OS 9) and 6 (OS X).   
          (Can be used optionally with the commercial applications FileMaker Pro 5 or 6,  instead of eMA Solution.)
  1.  eMA Solution for OS X native - 2.9 MB StuffIt file.
  2.  eMA Solution for OS 9 and earlier - 1.7 MB StuffIt file.

Screenshot

This is a picture of one of several views of a message in eMessage Archiver 4.10b5:

(the window extends to the bottom of the viewing screen)

ShareWare:

eMessage Archiver is Shareware, and you should pay the $15 fee at http://order.kagi.com/?8LN if you use it after evaluating it. Please do not pay until you are sure it works for your requirements. (Kagi accepts various forms of payment and currencies.) 
You will be sent a Registration Key that will work for all future versions.
Non-registration does not affect your future use of the databases; only actual archiving sessions are limited.

eMA-Talk Support & Discussion Group:

Please send all comments to the eMA-Talk discussion group only:

1) You can read the eMA-Talk messages on my Yahoo web page, if you want to, and adjust your preferences. The eMA-Talk web page is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eMA-Talk . You can also subscribe there.

2) Or join us (subscribe) by just typing your email address below and press the button. Then you will receive all messages by email, and can reply to them or send new ones.

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In either case, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link provided at the bottom of every message.

I will visit the site frequently, and will try to reply to the messages myself, unless someone already has. But there will be times I may be away for a few days, so feel free to reply to any message, to offer your own answers, comments, or experience.

[This page was created by John Carlsen, using Mozilla's SeaMonkey for Macintosh, on 5/3/07 11:20 am.]