File Details |
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| File Size | 1.9 MB |
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| License | Freeware |
| Operating System | Windows 2000/9x/Vista/XP |
| Date Added | January 1, 2006 |
| Total Downloads | 164 |
| Publisher | Edelwise, Inc. |
| Homepage | Attachment Analyzer |
Publisher's Description
Attachment Analyzer will provide you with HTML reports you can use to help identify potential problem areas with respect to attachments within your e-mail system.
Latest Reviews
spiked reviewed v2006 on May 6, 2007
Edelwise claims to provide extremely flexible criteria (for selecting mailboxes, attachment types, etc.) and compared to similar tools, this is true.
However, I noticed one glaring omission in the options for exclusion of mailboxes: You cannot simply exclude mailboxes with the "Hide from Exchange address lists" attribute set. Logically, this would be one of the most common scenarios that people might want to exclude.
Analysis runs fairly fast, given that this sort of thing is inherently time-consuming because nobody runs it until after they accumulate a huge message store. I was disappointed (but not surprised) to find that the progress display only shows "Processing message x of y" for the current folder within the current mailbox and "Processing mailbox x of y" when you have multiple mailboxes, but it gives no indication of how many folders are left to process within the current mailbox. In essence, it only shows you that the program is not locked up; you cannot tell how much longer it is going to run.
The output does not break down by folder, which is a pity because a very common source of mailbox bloat is Sent Items. Even today, I frequently encounter users who do not realize that every attachment they ever sent has been stashed in their Sent Items (completely redundant of the file which was obviously sitting on disk before they attached it). Very often, I can reduce the size of a store by 50% or more by merely showing users how to remove attachments from Sent Items (while still keeping the sent message if they wish).
Another oddity of the output: Despite the HTML having no carriage returns (which would typically suggest that the authors are of non-Microsoft mentality), it also uses formatting attributes which are proprietary to Microsoft Office and IE.
spiked reviewed v2006 on May 6, 2007
Edelwise claims to provide extremely flexible criteria (for selecting mailboxes, attachment types, etc.) and compared to similar tools, this is true.
However, I noticed one glaring omission in the options for exclusion of mailboxes: You cannot simply exclude mailboxes with the "Hide from Exchange address lists" attribute set. Logically, this would be one of the most common scenarios that people might want to exclude.
Analysis runs fairly fast, given that this sort of thing is inherently time-consuming because nobody runs it until after they accumulate a huge message store. I was disappointed (but not surprised) to find that the progress display only shows "Processing message x of y" for the current folder within the current mailbox and "Processing mailbox x of y" when you have multiple mailboxes, but it gives no indication of how many folders are left to process within the current mailbox. In essence, it only shows you that the program is not locked up; you cannot tell how much longer it is going to run.
The output does not break down by folder, which is a pity because a very common source of mailbox bloat is Sent Items. Even today, I frequently encounter users who do not realize that every attachment they ever sent has been stashed in their Sent Items (completely redundant of the file which was obviously sitting on disk before they attached it). Very often, I can reduce the size of a store by 50% or more by merely showing users how to remove attachments from Sent Items (while still keeping the sent message if they wish).
Another oddity of the output: Despite the HTML having no carriage returns (which would typically suggest that the authors are of non-Microsoft mentality), it also uses formatting attributes which are proprietary to Microsoft Office and IE.