Mail Tools Comparison Chart

Although Aid4Mail, Mailbag Assistant, and E-mail Examiner, share some common features, there are many significant differences between the three programs. These are shown in the following table:

	Aid4Mail	Mailbag Assistant	E-mail Examiner
Process popular mail formats	Yes	Yes	Yes
Export to generic mail formats (mbox and EML)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Can restore folder structure during export	Yes	No	No
Extract email addresses and attachments	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rebuild Eudora, PocoMail, Calypso, and Courier mail back into standard MIME messages	Yes	No	No
Strip attachments and/or rich contents from exported messages	Yes	No	No
Create MHT archives	Yes (1)	No	No
Create ZIP file archives	Yes (1)	No	No
MS Outlook support	Yes (1)	No	Yes
Read PST files without MAPI	No	No	Yes
Read and write MSG files	Yes (1)	No	No
Read AOL 9.0 mail	No	No	Yes
Display email messages	No	Yes	Yes
Display deleted email messages	No	No	Yes
Search, filter, group messages	No (2)	Yes	Yes
Reply to messages	No	Yes	No
Programmable	No	Yes	Yes
Specialized forensic features	No	No	Yes
Support from forensic specialists	No	No	Yes
Computer forensic training	No	No	Yes
Price starting from (USD)	$24.95 (3)	$39.95	$199.00 (4)

(1) The Aid4Mail Standard version does not support these features.
(2) Aid4Mail Professional can perform basic filtering on message headers.
(3) The Aid4Mail Forensic-examination license costs $99.95 USD. It adds support for filtering on both email header and message text, and processing deleted mail.
(4) Price includes Aid4Mail Console.

E-mail Examiner is a special version of Mailbag Assistant that we develop together with Paraben Corp. It is designed for the forensics community and helps investigators examine email messages.

If your work involves forensic email examination, we recommend using E-mail Examiner (EMX). Starting with version 5.0, EMX includes Aid4Mail Console and provides seamless access to it. As a result, all Aid4Mail features are also available to customers of Paraben's EMX 5.x. Other EMX benefits include reporting and export functions while maintaining forensic integrity by using MD5 hash values, not allowing emails to be replied to, recovering deleted/deleted emails from PST files, support for AOL email, and access to Paraben's forensic support team.