What is new for Mail Archiver X version 8.1?

Mail Archiver version 8.1 updates the interface for Tahoe. Decrypting S/MIME emails has been added.

Interface Improvements

The tabsheet style has been updated to the new Tahoe look.

The icon buttons for selecting or creating a new archive have been replaced by standard push buttons.

The button to start archiving is now a bit larger.

Improvements for PDF

The Mails folder has been renamed to Emails.

There is now an structure additional option to place the attachments into the same folder as the PDF.

Like for the Internal Database the icon button to select a location for the PDFs has been replaced by a standard push button. Also like the Internal Database there is now a dropdown menu to make the selection of standard locations like Desktop or Documents easier.

Decrypt S/MIME

It's finally possible to decrypt S/MIME encrypted emails. When archiving the emails are decrypted before being archived. You can decrypt already archived emails with Email -> Utilities -> Decrypt S/MIME from the menu. For decryption the required certificates must be available on the computer.

Update mailbox

With "Update mailbox of archived Emails" it is possible to update the mailbox for archived emails. Let’s say you archived an email from your Inbox. Afterwards, you moved the email to another mailbox in your email client or account. With this option, the mailbox in the archive will be updated to the new mailbox.

You can use either "Archive duplicate Emails" or "Update mailboxes," but not both.

Speed improvement

Version 8.1 only has one speed improvement: adding emails for large archives has become faster. In my testing adding 200k emails went down from 70 to 58 minutes.

New file ending for archives

Mail Archiver has an additional file ending because there were problems with the existing one on Tahoe. By default the app uses .vdb_max as file ending for the archives. For the time being both file endings are supported.

Deep Links

Mail Archiver has a new entry in the Utilities menu "Create Deep Link". With this menu item a link in the form of "mail-archiver://%3C4F175D05-5765-472F-9AA9-"'DD5BC059414D%40me.com%3E" will be put into the clipboard. This url can be used to directly link to an email.

Other Improvements

Feature 4386: There is now a full macOS window menu with tiling etc.
Feature 5490: It's now possible to start resending the license from the Settings window.
Feature 5518: When starting Mail Archiver from the installer the beachball no longer shows up.
Feature 5652: When opening the Setup the password for the server no longer is automatically visible.
Feature 5779: When editing passwords for an account there is now a show button.
Feature 5786: When the app is not registered the PDFs now have a watermark.
Feature 5817: The launch agent file is now removed when necessary.
Feature 5823: Improved converting html to text.
Feature 5824: Improved an icon for the Tour.
Feature 5870: Improved handling of index for emails.
Feature 5882: In addition to an edit icon for projects and keywords there is now an icon to go to the Settings for adding those tags.
Feature 5894: Renamed the translations of database dump.
Feature 5907: The archive button in the Setup is now a bit larger.
Feature 5908: It's now possible to start importing accounts from Mail/Outlook when creating a new account.
Feature 5926: When sending an email for a schedule the error messages now show the name of the schedule.
Feature 5974: It's now possible to start a schedule manually with a context menu.

Bug Fixes

Bug 5787: Improved default font handling when creating PDFs.
Bug 5822: Removed some extra entries from the context menu when viewing an email.
Bug 5843: Fixed a NilObjectException when archiving to PDF.
Bug 5877: Improved switching between fields of the simple search.
Bug 5903: When doing a diagnosis on the archive the notification no longer is shown directly after starting the diagnosis.
Bug 5930: Fixed a ThreadAccessingUIException when adding an account in the Setup.
Bug 5943: It's no longer possible to delete the last bookmark in Server Management for the Pro version.
Bug 5950: Fixed a NilObjectException when trying to archive from a deleted schedule.
Bug 5954: Fixed a problem with attachments with long names not being displayed correctly.
Bug 5969: It's now possible to archive again after cancelling to archive to PDF.
Bug 5970: Main and Tour window no longer show up a couple of pixels beneath the menubar under Tahoe.
Bug 5986: When opening/creating an archive there is now a default order for the fields of the list of emails.
Bug 6000: Fixed an OutOfBoundsException when renaming an account.
Bug 6001: The option to block remote content in the email viewer is now enabled by default.
Bug 6011: Improved handling of journal files.
Bug 6042: vdb files are no longer greyed out when doing a Cmd-O.
Bug 6049: Fixed a timeout message when sending scheduler emails for user accounts.
Bug 6050: Fixed a problem when uploading emails to an IMAP account.
Bug 6052: Fixed an issue with reconnecting to an IMAP account.
Bug 6055: Fixed a problem with reindexing not hiding the progress window.
Bug 6056: Fixed an infinite loop when searching and resetting the search multiple times.
Bug 6059: The LaunchAgent is now properly updated on older macOS versions.