By Jason Snell

August 6, 2019 1:31 PM PT

This week’s sponsor: MailSteward

Whether you’re running a business or simply your own household, you know how important e-mail is. It is nothing less than the record of your life — personal and professional — over decades.

MailSteward gives you the ability to archive, search, retrieve and export essential data from this precious personal resource by harnessing the power of an industry-standard, relational database engine to your Apple Mail or Postbox Mac mail apps.

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MailSteward lets you define rules to automatically tag e-mail as it is archived into your database based on criteria you define. Or you can perform complex searches after the e-mail has been archived and then tag the results with any combination of category, keywords, notes and priorities.

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