Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1

• License:

  Free to try; $15.00 to buy (Buy it now)

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 5 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  14,520

• Operating Systems:

  Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/Nt/2000/XP, Microsoft Outlook 2000

• Limitations:

  30-day trial

• Date Added:

  November 04, 2004

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version Outlook Attachment Sniffer 3.6 Outlook Attachment Sniffer 3.1.0.1 Outlook Attachment Sniffer 2.5 Outlook Attachment Sniffer 2.1

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Publisher's description of Outlook Attachment Sniffer

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Outlook Attachment Sniffer is an add-in that allows you to deal with specific tasks in e-mails, either automatically in incoming e-mails or in selected e-mails or in complete Outlook folders. Extract attachments (and remove or replace them with shortcuts), inspecting MSG attachments recursively. Export e-mails to disk (supported formats include TXT, MSG, HTML, EML, and MHT). The program can log the export for you, if you, for instance, wish to import the data into a database. Copy or move e-mails to another Outlook folder, with autocreation of subfolders, depending on the e-mail's data (sender, recipient, subject, date ). Delete specific attachments or e-mails in one go. Removing attachments is a good way to solve some problems if Outlook is suffering. After removing unneeded attachments, you can shrink your PST files to reasonable sizes and in some cases significantly increase the performance of Outlook. To use this program you must have installed Outlook 2000 or higher.

Version 4.1 extracts attachments, exports e-mails, copies and moves e-mails, and supports autoprocessing of incoming e-mails.

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Editor's review of Outlook Attachment Sniffer

• 4.0 stars

• "Outlook Attachment Sniffer"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1

With its seamless integration into Outlook, this utility makes managing file attachments easy. Outlook Attachment Sniffer works as a plug-in for Outlook 2000 or higher. You can extract any or all attachments in a specific Outlook folder to a project folder, making it easy to find individual files. The program also gives you the option to replace your attachments with aliases. This makes your e-mail file size smaller while still allowing you to find files by looking through archived e-mails. It's very useful if you have capacity limits on your e-mail accounts. We like the number of options for extracting files, such as file renaming. When you want to reunite the attachment with the e-mail, just use the Reimport OAS shortcuts function, and Attachment Sniffer will quickly replace the alias with the original file. The program also provides the ability to copy e-mails to another Outlook folder. Some may find useful the feature that lets you export messages in HTML, MHT, and EML formats. We found Outlook Attachment Sniffer very effective at what it does and think it would be well suited to those who deal with several attachments on a daily basis or those looking to reduce the size of their Outlook files.

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• Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 5 votes
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• 4 stars

  Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1

  "Very nice"

  by pawelpa on October 1, 2006

  Pros: Gives a variety of options to save messages and attachments

  Cons: It will be nice if the attachment can be replaced with link to the file (in the body of the message) not with another attachment.

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• 4 stars

  Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1

  "Great product, would like to see a few enhancements"

  by brannose on May 2, 2006

  Pros: This is a terrific application for anyone who wants to automatically save emails to a specific Windows folder based on info in the subject line. I use it to scan incoming emails for specific words and then save a copy, complete with attachments, to a subject file corresponding to the filter subject.

  The application works very reliably and is pretty fast. It filters all incoming Outlook mail looking for the specified matches. You can have multiple filters and it will compare the incoming subject line to each filter until it either finds a match or exhausts the list. The message then is received by Outook.

  Cons: My comments are more along the line of a wish list of enhancements rather than real cons. There are several things that could make the program easier to set up for users who are doing detailed filtering and saving copies of emails to many separate folders. It would be helpful to be able to assign default settings to the various fields that must be completed when setting up a filter. It also would be helpful to have a dropdown menu for choosing the destination file folder where you want to save matches. As it is now, you have to enter the path either manually or by cut and paste. The last thing is that it would be nice to have the option of filtering the entire email (subject line and body) for matches instead of just the subject line. This would slow performance but sometimes, at least in may case, the information that I need to look at does not appear in the subject line.

  My last concern is that I have not been able to get the author to respond to any emails. But, the program still works beautifully and is unique as far as I can tell.

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• 5 stars

  Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1

  "Very nice product - works great. Highly recommended."

  by cnetar on May 9, 2005

  Pros: Allows to custom almost everything.

  Can be set to run on incoming email from now on.

  Works quickly.

  Cons: Didn't find any, so far, nada.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1

  "no longer able to send emails with figures in the body"

  by natashajain2002 on January 9, 2009

  Pros: I am not able to send emails after installing the product. So, not sure if there is anything good about it.

  Cons: After i installed this product, I am not able to send any email with the figures inserted into the message body. I tried contacting the support but no reply.

  Summary: There is no update on version since 2005 as I can see the reviews from 2005 for version 4.1 and it is still the same version in 2009. Not sure if this is anymore maintained by anyone. Waste of money. If someone know any other good product please ... read more >>

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• 5 stars

  Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1

  "Great app for import/export of Outlook emails"

  by kyle63 on July 31, 2008

  Pros: Only app I could find that could rip a HUGE number of PST files and simply convert and organize them any way I wanted.

  Cons: The extractions menu should probably be simplified - I'm an advanced user and am not accustomed to reading help files to figure out how to set up "extract to" folder settings, etc.

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