Editor's review
Aid4Mail helps to migrate emails to another mail client, export them for viewing in IE, Excel, or a database, and archive them to save space or for compliance with legal requirements. It supports many mail clients and processes all messages reliably and quickly.
Pros: Aid4Mail is a user-friendly Windows tool that helps you migrate your email messages to a different mail client, export them for viewing through Internet Explorer, MS Excel, or a database, convert them to extract or re-insert attachments, and archive them to save space or for compliance with legal requirements. Aid4Mail supports many popular mail client programs and processes messages reliably and quickly, including those with file attachments and embedded contents like pictures and background images.
One has the choice of exporting email merged into a single mailbox file or as individual message files. File attachments and embedded items like pictures and background images separately. E-mails could be archived without attachments and to save further space, even as plaintext messages. E-mail addresses of people users have communicated with can be separated out, helping rebuild address book or creating a mail list. There are different versions of the program that has slightly different functionality.
Aid4Mail offers a powerful archiving feature that helps save mail in a highly compressed zip file with attachments being in separate folders within the zip. That allows easy extraction when needed. Mail folders are stored in a non-proprietary mailbox format that most mail clients can read, guaranteeing compatibility with future systems.
Cons: Some of the features that aim at saving storage space does not really make sense any more. Particularly since storage is so cheap now and is plentiful with 500 GB or even terabyte drive becoming common.
Overall this package serves a very useful purpose in view of the statutory requirements of storing email messages for a long time. Besides the ability to switch between different mail systems also is useful at times. Overall a 4 star application.
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