Key Features
The following lists the key features of Aid4Mail 1.998, by version:
All versions
- Fast mail conversion, with greater fidelity than competing solutions (see the Conversion Quality page).
- Modern, user-friendly wizard interface, designed with accessibility in mind.
- Many useful and unique export options.
- Supports most popular mail formats, including Mac OS X Mail and Entourage MBOX files.
- Processes mail folders and files from any drive, even off a CD-ROM or USB key.
- Merges mailbox files into a single one, or splits a large mailbox into smaller ones.
- Handles huge mailbox files – successfully processed a 264 GB mbox file with 3 million emails.
- Handles huge email messages – successfully converted a 270 MB email message.
- Correctly exports email with formatted text, attachments, embedded contents, and status information.
- Easily extracts file attachments, embedded contents, and email addresses.
- Rebuilds Eudora, PocoMail, Calypso, and Courier archive messages back to standard MIME format.
- Strips attachments from messages and even save emails in plain text format.
- Option to filter out duplicate emails.
Professional, Forensic, Enterprise, and Console versions only
- Imports/exports Office Outlook for Windows mail: PST files, MSG files, and MAPI profiles. Note that either Outlook (the free trial works too) or an Exchange MAPI client (like the free standalone version of MAPI) must be installed.
- Filters messages by date range and/or by matching text in the mail header.
- Exports mail to MHT format for viewing in Internet Explorer.
- Exports mail details to tab-delimited file for import into a database.
- Creates highly compressed mail archives in standard ZIP files (see the Archiving Email page for more information).
Forensic, Enterprise, and Console versions only
- Searches messages by content in both email header and message body.
- Processes unpurged email from most mail clients (except Office Outlook).
- Restores unpurged email during export operation.
- Offline activation option (the Enterprise version does not require activation at all).
Enterprise version only
- Does not require product activation.
- Comes with Aid4Mail Console (see below for Console features).
- Supports multiple users (see the license agreement for more information).
- Runs from a USB key (thumb drive), speeding up migration when going from one desktop computer to the next.
- Runs from a Windows server.
Console version only
Note that Aid4Mail Console is only distributed with Aid4Mail Enterprise, and the Customer-Service License of Aid4Mail Professional, and cannot be purchased separately.
- Runs from batch files, scripts, the Windows Start/Run dialog, and any application that can execute other programs.
- Processes more than one PST file unattended.
