CNET Editors' review
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.
Publisher's Description
From Rsbr-Software:
Outlook Attachment Sniffer is a powerful Outlook Add-In, which allows you to extract, save and remove specific (or all) attachments and export e-mails from your Outlook folders to disk in various formats. It also allows you to copy and move e-mails to other Outlook folders, optional with auto-creation of subfolders depending on the e-mail's data (sender, recipient and so on). Exported attachments can be replaced with links, and they can later be reimported. Attached .msg-e-mails can also be inspected recursively for further attachments. Export of e-mails includes the formats .EML, .TXT, .RTF, .HTM, .MSG and .MHT. The export can be logged, if, for instance, you wish to import the data into a database.
What's new in this version: Version 5.0.1.4 fixed bug when shipped batch-mode-program OASbat.exe showed a message like "Class not registered".
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"Registration problem Windows 7"
Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1
Pros
I've become quite dependent on this product. It works well.
Cons
Except upgrading to Windows 7 it seems that the license doesn't work any more. There doesn't seem to be any response to queries about this.
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"Works well, but perhaps I misunderstood what it does"
Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1
Pros
Good integration with outlook. Puts the attachment in a seperate folder and replaces it with a link. This makes the attachments much faster to open as its not drawing them off the server each time.
Cons
My mailbox still went over its size limit and when searching through outlook with its cleanup wizard the attachments are still there! It stopped working a couple of times and had to be reinstalled (traylook may be conflicting with it).
Summary
My reason for purchase was to stop going over my mailbox size limit so quickly so it has no real benefit if it just duplicates the attachment in another folder.
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"no longer able to send emails with figures in the body"
Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1
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 let me know.
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"Great app for import/export of Outlook emails"
Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1
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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"Very nice"
Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1
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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"Great product, would like to see a few enhancements"
Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1
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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"Very nice product - works great. Highly recommended."
Version: Outlook Attachment Sniffer 4.1
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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