05 December 2019

An update for MailDex 2020 email manager is now available.

Encryptomatic LLC has released an update to their MailDex 2020 email management and conversion software.  Version 1.4.6 is an update that is recommended  for all customers. It solves several user reported issues and includes the latest performance and user interface improvements.

This update is available to all customers with a current MailDex support and update contract.   To update within MailDex, go to Help > Update Software.

The issues resolved include:
MDX228 & MDX119: The message count was incorrect for MBOX formatted emails
MDX346: A crash may occur when a certain column is maximized
MDX347: Index process sometimes became unresponsive with MBOX
MDX348: Improved single PDF conversion performance for MBOX files
MDX349: Now handles corrupted attachment names for MBOX files
MDX345: Advanced Search was relocated for improved ease of use

Screen image showing the location of email Advanced Search in MailDex software.
Location of Email Advanced Search

MailDex by Encryptomatic LLC is an advanced Windows software tool for indexing, searching and converting multiple email formats.  Use MailDex to create a searchable index of millions of email messages.  MailDex supports Outlook pst, ost, msg, as well as mht, mbox, and eml email files.

Get a free 15 day trial of MailDex on the official MailDex product home page.


06 November 2019

Encryptomatic OpenPGP for Outlook is Updated

Encryptomatic OpenPGP add-in for Microsoft Outlook has been updated. The latest version is 2.6.5 and is now available for download.

This release resolves several user reported issues and is recommended for all users.

The numerous enhancements in this release include:
  • Improve message wording for unsigned messages.
  • Added an option to decrypt attachments only.
  • Improvements to text formatting.
  • Allow extending a key's validity.
  • Fixed an issue with opening signed inline messages.
  • Resolved issue where auto conversion from html body to plain text body adds extra spaces to the message text.
  • Improved decryption trigger for non encrypted emails.
  • Resolved  an issue where selecting today's date as expiration date when creating key produces wrong expiration date (+>100 years).
  • Fixed problem where Add in can not open signed multipart message.
  • Resolved issue where Detail box after decryption does not open if something failed or if message is un-signed.
  • Resolved issue where key creation and expiration time are not UTC https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-3.5
  • Fixed an issue where signature verification may fail when it should be successful.

Encryptomatic OpenPGP is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019/365 that brings OpenPGP email encryption to the Outlook toolbar. It is used by companies and individuals to send end-to-end public key encrypted email messages from Outlook,

Learn more about Encryptomatic OpenPGP at our website, and download the software.  Encryptomatic OpenPGP is free for personal, journalism, activist and non-profit uses, and very affordable for business/government uses.

18 September 2019

Re-Introducing PstViewer Lite Outlook Email Viewer

https://www.encryptomatic.com/pstviewer/lite/


PstViewer Lite is the little brother of our PstViewer Pro email viewer.  At Encryptomatic LLC, we haven't paid much attention to PstViewer Lite lately. It's one of those rock solid products that performs well and hasn't demanded much attention from our support or development staff. That is about to change, however.



We are presently working to update PstViewer Lite to the most advanced version of our MVCOM email rendering engine.  This will keep PstViewer Lite performing well into the foreseeable future.  The impending update of PstViewer Lite seems like a good reason for us to re-introduce this workhorse Windows software product.


PstViewer Lite was first released a decade ago to fill a market need for a budget priced, well supported Microsoft Outlook email viewer.  You can associate PstViewer Lite with many different email file types, including .Msg, .Eml, .Mbox, .Pst, .Pst and even .MHT and .MHTML files.

Associations can be changed any time, but typically is set during the initial installation of PstViewer Lite.

Software screen shot showing selectable boxes for email file formats.
Associate PstViewer Lite with different email file types.

 PstViewer Lite is simple to use. Just locate the folder that holds the email file(s), and PstViewer Lite will read the individual mails into an organized list.  To preview an email in the viewing pane, just click on it.

View Outlook emails in the viewing pane of PstViewer Lite.
Click on an email to preview in the viewing pane.

To investigate the email message further, double click to open it in a full window.

Software screen shot of a html email in full window view, showing an image of a buffalo.
An HTML email rendered in a full window.
PstViewer Lite's important functions are quickly assessible from the main menu, including Reply, Forward, Print, Search and PDF

PstViewer Lite main menu

Email Search


PstViewer Lite has advanced search capabilities.  Use it to search a ost, pst or mbox file, as well as directories full of .msg and .eml emails.  Clicking on the search icon brings up a quick text search option. A more advanced search option is available to allow you to search for emails by mixing criteria such as sender, setting start and end calendar date for the search, searching specific email fields such as subject, sender, recipient and more.


Software screen shot showing searchable fields.
Email Advanced Search Function

Email to PDF 

PstViewer Lite can convert an email message to a PDF document.  This is the main difference between PstViewer Lite and Pro.  Where PstViewer Pro can export thousands of emails to PDF, PstViewer Lite will export individual selected emails to PDF.  The results are impressive.

To convert an email to PDF, first select an email from the PstViewer Lite email list. Next, click the PDF icon in the toolbar, and finally choose a place to save the PDF file.

Image of a PDF file created from a html .msg Outlook email with PstViewer Lite, showing a buffalo.
An email converted to PDF with PstViewer Lite

Thanks for taking a hard look at PstViewer Lite. You can download the free trial or purchase an affordable license on the product's software home page, www.encryptomatic.com/pstviewer/lite/
https://www.encryptomatic.com/pstviewer/lite/
https://www.encryptomatic.com/pstviewer/lite/


Anyone purchasing the product today will receive the software update next month.  If you have any questions, please post them here or call us!  1-651-815-4902 x2.

19 August 2019

Email Search Visualization Graphs and Charts Now in MailDex 2019

Search Results Visualization: shows different charts and graphics produced from an email search using MailDex.
Visual Your Email Search Results

The latest update to MailDex 2019 email management and conversion system now includes the ability to visual email search searches.  The MailDex team is happy to bring this advanced functionality to our customers, which has previously been the domain of expensive email discovery service providers.

MailDex 2019 creates a searchable index of your email content.  Indices are project based, and you can create as many email indexing projects as necessary.  Projects can be created and disposed of according to your needs.  Deleting a project does not delete the email content, just the email indices.

MailDex 2019 is useful for archiving and discovering email content.  At $129.99 per license, MailDex provides high email content management features at a competitive price point.

Searching Email

MailDex provides two search methods.  With MailDex Simple Search, simply enter a single search term. MailDex will create a list of all emails in the index that contain that term.

MailDex's Advanced Search allows you to create complex search results using regex terms.
Advanced search lets you build and store searches that contain multiple terms,  as well as excluding other terms. Advance search can search a specific date range.

Advanced Search form in MailDex. Screen image shows functions for creating an advanced email search that includes multiple match criteria.

MailDex 2019 Advanced Email Search.

Free Trial


This MailDex 2019 update is available to all MailDex users by updating through the MailDex software update system.

A 15 day free trial of MailDex 2019 can be downloaded from the product home page at Encryptomatic.com/MailDex/Download

No credit card or personal information is required to run the MailDex free trial.
The free trial may be converted into the full version by purchasing a license activation code.
Software licenses for MailDex are perpetual.
MailDex 2019 requires Windows 10, 2 GHZ processor, 2 GB disk space, and 4 GB RAM (more is better).



  

07 May 2019

MailDex Update 1.3.4 is Released

Encryptomatic MailDex email archiving system has been updated.  The latest version 1.3.4 is now available for free trial on the MailDex website.  Customers with a valid MailDex maintenance and support service subscription can update from within the software Help tab.

Software screenshot showing location of Check for Updates in the Help tab.
MailDex Checking for Updates

A major improvement has been made to the advanced email search.  Users can now include AND/OR/NOT criteria and design "Sets" of search criteria.  Searches may be saved and reused at a later time.

Screen shot of MailDex advanced criteria in search.
Advanced Email Search in MailDex.
If you have been working with our support team on an issue, the following tracked issues have been resolved in this release.

Features:
MDX-217    AND/OR Searches improvements

Fixes:
MDX-194    Regex "And" search
MDX-224    Update folders and icons names to MailDex 2019
MDX-227    RegEx search improvement
MDX-231    MDX 1.3.1: Add group may cause crash in some instances
MDX-232    MDX 1.3.1: Clicking on search icon may cause issue in some instances
MDX-233    MDX 1.3.1: Save-as improvement
MDX-234    MDX 1.3.1: Control may appear out of frame
MDX-236    Save throws unhandled exception in some instances
MDX-239    Require activation over TLS only.
MDX-242    Update links for Connect with us
MDX-243    Remove favorites feature

For support or upgrade questions, please feel free to contact us.

14 March 2019

OutDisk FTP Add-in for Microsoft Outlook has been Updated.

File Transfer Protocol, or #FTP, is a venerable old protocol with a legacy stretching as far back as 1971, when Abhay Bhushan wrote the spec for it.  With concerns slowly mounting about security over the years, FTP has given way to other file transport methods that securely handle passwords and encrypt transfers.

We originally released OutDisk FTP in 2006, and over the years it has not been one of our more successful products. The complexity of configuring FTP accounts and servers was a hurdle for some. Given the amount of time our support team spent troubleshooting our customer's person FTP servers, we learned firsthand that OutDisk is a niche tool that is not right for everyone. In fact, most people should use an file transfer add-in from a service like Dropbox, and not try to roll their own service.

Yet, our more hardcore OutDisk users (generally more technically capable with solid IT experience) have found ways to solve an array of problems with it, many of which we never envisioned.  At their urging we have updated OutDisk for Outlook 2019.  The emphasis of OutDisk moving forward will be on use of the SFTP Secure File Transport Protocol which adds encryption layer providing security far beyond old FTP.

If you are one of the persistent hardcore OutDisk users who wouldn't take "maybe" as answer, this update is for you.

What is OutDisk SFTP for Outlook?


It's been awhile, so we may as well start at the beginning.

OutDisk SFTP is a tool for transferring files from your Windows desktop to your remote server.  It can be used from the Windows desktop, but most people who choose OutDisk do so because of it's tight integration with the Microsoft Office Outlook interface.

When you send an Outlook email with file attachments, OutDisk SFTP Outlook add-in will, either automatically or by your manual selection,  remove the attachments from the email and upload them to your server. It then inserts your custom message and a https link into the email so the recipient can download the attachments.

The benefit of using OutDisk is that it makes your emails smaller and more likely to be delivered to the recipient's inbox.  You can also choose to automatically compress and encrypt the file attachments.

People who use OutDisk are generally in a small to mid-sized company, although we have had large electrical utilities use it.  What they all seem to have in common is a) they want to simplify sending attachments for their Outlook users, b) they don't want their users uploading company documents to their private Dropbox account or some other 3rd party file storage system, and c)  maybe they want to take some load off of email servers and storage, or have a legal need to keep control of documents, or have some kind of other specific use that had them searching Google for an FTP add-in for Outlook.

Here's some pictures of the OutDisk SFTP integration with Outlook.

How does OutDisk SFTP work from the user's perspective?

After setting up your SFTP server, and installing OutDisk SFTP with their log-in credentials, your users should find it simple to use.  They just create an Outlook email as they normally would, attach a file to the email and send it (as they normally would).

Here's an email with an EXE file attachment that I prepared to send to myself:

Outlook new email Message window.
Email with exe file attachment.See the OutDisk tool bar integration upper right corner.

Here's the normal message from Outlook reminding me that I can do that.


"This item contains attachments that are potentially unsafe."
Outlook warning about potentially unsafe file attachments.

And now, here's the email as it arrived in my Gmail Inbox.


Finally, here's the https webpage the recipient sees when they follow the link.  And yes, you can change the text that OutDisk inserts into the email. It's fully customizable.

image of OutDisk sftp landing page.
OutDisk SFTP download landing page

Yes, you can change the logo to your company logo.
We have provided a test SFTP service in OutDisk, just so you can try it right away.  File size is limited, and we sweep through and delete everything quite often, so please do not use it in production.

In Conclusion

We are very pleased that we can keep OutDisk compatible with the current versions of Microsoft Windows and Office.  If you think you might be a candidate to use Outdisk, or if it may be a fit for a project you're working on,  you can learn more and get the free trial at the OutDisk product home page.

By the way, those are my real email addresses. I love to hear from customers. Drop me a line and say hello.







24 February 2019

A Reputable Pst Viewer

In our marketing campaigns, we've noticed an increasing number of visitors finding our email viewing products after searching Google for the term "reputable .pst viewer."
For years, we've known that we have been competing for attention in a market that has been saturated with phony companies.  Through it all, we have stayed to the strategy of calling our products by our own name.

The less reputable developers seem to have a strategy that goes like this:  just create a bunch of disposable companies (it's cheap to form an LLC), compile the product under different names and logos, and flood the market, including software download sites. Instead of competing as one company in the marketplace (as we continue to do), these companies try to fool Google into thinking they are separate organizations. Too often, they succeed.

This kind of deceptive software marketing practice makes it very difficult for people shopping for email management products like our PstViewer Pro software (which other companies have started calling their products after to capitalize on our good name. After downloading essentially the same lesser products four or five times, shoppers understandably get frustrated.

Going forward, we hope this situation gets sorted.  Maybe Google's huge investment in AI will eventually allow them to weed out companies in it for a quick buck. We find it encouraging that Encryptomatic's products appear for searches as people struggle to find a reputable Pst Viewer product.

Meanwhile, we at Encryptomatic LLC will continue answering your phone call, just as we have since 2005. We'll reply to your support requests, answer your emails, chat with you live on our website. We won't put our products on the market under the names of disposable companies. We will continue to improve and update our products, and be A+ members of the Better Business Bureau.

Thank you for persisting in your search and finding your way to our company. We hope our products are a good fit for you. We will continue to work hard to be worthy of the effort you put in to find us, and the trust you have placed in us by purchasing our product.

Encryptomatic LLC, A+ member of Better Business Bureau
Encryptomatic LLC