Emailchemy Changelog

What's new in Emailchemy 14.6

Mar 11, 2024
  • Updated PST file writer
  • Performance and availability improvements for online activation
  • User interface and security updates

New in Emailchemy 14.5 (Jan 8, 2023)

  • Support for macOS 13 “Ventura” Mail app
  • Fixed an issue where macOS version no longer recognized the license dongle
  • Fixed an issue with activation through proxy servers

New in Emailchemy 14.4.6 (Mar 30, 2022)

  • Support for macOS “Monterey” Mail changes released in macOS 12.3
  • Fixed issue where some converted Apple Mail accounts had generic names

New in Emailchemy 14.4.5 (Mar 30, 2022)

  • Fixed bug where PST output option did not appear on some Macs

New in Emailchemy 14.4.4 (Jun 1, 2021)

  • Fixed issue where PST output option was not showing on some macOS installations

New in Emailchemy 14.4.1 (Mar 14, 2021)

  • Fixed issue with license dongles created on Windows 10 with Emailchemy v14.4
  • IMPORTANT: before updating from 14.4 to 14.4.1, be aware dongles created with 14.4 on Windows 10 will not work with 14.4.1. Please contact WKS support to first have your license reset so you can create a new dongle. Dongles created on macOS or Linux are not affected.

New in Emailchemy 14.4 (Mar 14, 2021)

  • Full compatibility with macOS 11.0 “Big Sur”. Older versions may have issues with Forensic Edition dongles on Big Sur.
  • Mac version now requires macOS 10.11 “El Capitan” or higher. Do not upgrade if running an older version of macOS.

New in Emailchemy 14.3.18 (Mar 14, 2021)

  • Support for macOS 11.0 “Big Sur” Mail folders
  • Mac version now requires macOS 10.11 “El Capitan” or higher. Do not upgrade if running an older version of Mac OS.
  • Signing Windows app with new certificate. Windows SmartScreen may mark install as potentially unsafe until reputation increases

New in Emailchemy 14.3.15 (Mar 14, 2021)

  • Updates to Outlook PST file writer
  • Fixed bad URL for download of new version in Windows and Linux versions

New in Emailchemy 14.3.14 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Fixed issue with converting MSG files that were created by forensic tool export
  • Updates to Outlook PST file writer

New in Emailchemy 14.3.12 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Full compatibility with macOS Catalina mail archives
  • Now scanned by Apple for malware (“notarized” by Apple) to support running on macOS Catalina
  • Fixed bug where some Apple Mail attachments were not being attached correctly
  • Updates to Outlook PST file writer

New in Emailchemy 14.3.9 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Bug fixes and improvements for the Thunderbird converter, Outlook MSG converter, and Outlook PST writer.

New in Emailchemy 14.3.7 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Outlook MSG converter now converts calendar invitations when Extract All Message Types is set in Emailchemy’s Outlook preferences.

New in Emailchemy 14.3.6 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Fixed issue that prevented some Outlook OST file conversions from completing

New in Emailchemy 14.3.4 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Fixed issue where file selection dialog was unable to select an RGE file
  • Fixed issue with some messages in OLM files having incorrect time zone in Date header

New in Emailchemy 14.3.3 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue with USB dongle detection failing that sometimes prevented app from starting
  • Google Takeout wizard now accepts any folder of mbox files downloaded from Google Takout instead of just the “Takeout” folder
  • Fixed issue where converter sometimes created an extra empty folder in the output
  • Bug fixes for command-line interface (CLI)

New in Emailchemy 14.3.1 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Support for converting Outlook Mac 2019
  • Improvements to the Outlook PST file writer

New in Emailchemy 14.3 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Support for macOS 10.14 Mojave
  • Improved macOS file open/save dialogs
  • Fixed bug where progress panel was counting all filtered emails as filtered duplicates
  • Now checks if Apple Mail is running before starting conversion

New in Emailchemy 14.2.1 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue that caused incorrect dates on some “sent” messages when converting Outlook for Mac 2015/2016 email

New in Emailchemy 14.2 (Aug 29, 2018)

  • Full support for converting Outlook OST files
  • Support for macOS 10.14 Mojave beta Mail folders
  • Maildir converter now combines tmp, new, and cur subfolders

New in Emailchemy 14.1.1 (Aug 29, 2018)

  • Fixed issue with Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail converters not finding all messages
  • Mbox conversion wizard now accepts an individual mbox file in addition to folders of mbox files
  • Fixed issues with Linux version installer and launcher

New in Emailchemy 14.1 (Aug 29, 2018)

  • Notification of privacy policy and practices to support the EU’s GDPR
  • Automatic checking for software updates
  • Fixed issue with Open/Save dialogs on macOS High Sierra
  • Fixed issues with Linux version installer and launcher

New in Emailchemy 13.2.11 (Oct 4, 2017)

  • Fixes a problem with the file open & save dialogs on the Mac.

New in Emailchemy 13.2.10 (Jul 27, 2017)

  • Modifications to the embedded IMAP server and SMTP server to maintain compatibility with latest Outlook 2016 updates.

New in Emailchemy 13.2.9 (Jun 19, 2017)

  • Fixed issue where AOL converter crashed when converting files with corrupt image tags

New in Emailchemy 13.2.7 (Jun 12, 2017)

  • Fixed issue with blank messages in Outlook 2016 Mac after import from IMAP server

New in Emailchemy 13.2.1 (Oct 2, 2016)

  • Emailchemy’s built-in IMAP server is now compatible with the Apple Mail app that comes with macOS Sierra (10.12).
  • Setting up the IMAP account in the new Apple Mail requires an extra step. In the Advanced IMAP Settings (found in the Server Settings tab of the Account settings in Apple Mail), you need to check the “Allow insecure authentication” box, save the settings, and then restart Apple Mail.
  • This setting will only affect connections to Emailchemy’s IMAP server — connections that are only between two processes running on the same computer and never go over the Internet.

New in Emailchemy 13.2 (Sep 22, 2016)

  • Support for Apple Mail V4 folders found in macOS 10.12 "Sierra"
  • IMAP server folders are no longer read-only, to address a bug in Outlook where downloaded folders were retaining read-only status

New in Emailchemy 13.1.8 (Jul 11, 2016)

  • Fixed bug that caused Outlook for Mac converter to crash in certain situations
  • Fixed timer bug that made Emailchemy think converter had crashed when filtering on very large archives

New in Emailchemy 13.1.4 (May 25, 2016)

  • Fixed bad character encoding bug in sent messages imported from Entourage into Outlook 2015
  • Fixed issue with MSG file converter missing very large HTML message bodies
  • Fixed issue with OLM writer stalling when converting very large email archives

New in Emailchemy 13.1 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • Outlook OLM file output for easier importing into Outlook for Mac
  • Bug fixes and general stability improvements

New in Emailchemy 13.0.4 (Dec 23, 2015)

  • Performance improvements for IMAP server
  • Multiple minor bug fixes for Eudora Mac converter
  • Multiple minor bug fixes for Outlook PST converter

New in Emailchemy 13.0.3 (Dec 23, 2015)

  • Minor enhancements for AOL for Windows converter
  • Fixed Outlook MSG converter bug that caused it to skip some attachments in MSG files created by a specific archiving tool.

New in Emailchemy 13.0.2 (Nov 29, 2015)

  • Minor performance improvements for IMAP server
  • Fixed bug in Entourage Cache converter not creating system-independent folder names

New in Emailchemy 13.0.1 (Nov 24, 2015)

  • Fixed bug in AOL for Windows converter that incorrectly converted some dates in PFC files from AOL 3.0 or earlier
  • Fixed bug in Outlook MSG converter introduced in v13 release that caused converter to crash on some messages

New in Emailchemy 13.0 (Nov 24, 2015)

  • Powerful new message filtering capability
  • Bug fixes for Outlook OLM & Outlook MSG converters
  • New Converters:
  • AOL for Mac (v3 and newer)
  • AOL Desktop for Mac
  • Apple Mail v9 (El Capitan)
  • CompuServe v3-4 for Windows
  • Outlook 2015/2016 for Mac

New in Emailchemy 12.1.16 (Aug 15, 2015)

  • Fixed bug in AOL for Windows and CompuServe for Windows converters that prevented complete conversions of Personal Filing Cabinet files.

New in Emailchemy 12.1.15 (Jun 11, 2015)

  • Fixed bug in Outlook Mac 2011 converter that caused some conversions to fail before completion

New in Emailchemy 12.1.14 (May 26, 2015)

  • Fixed bug in Apple Mail converter that prevented some attachments from being converted

New in Emailchemy 12.1.13 (Apr 28, 2015)

  • Entourage converter now works with more corrupt Database files
  • Java runtime updated
  • Removed Google Apps Uploader (see weirdkid.com/blog for details)

New in Emailchemy 12.1.12 (Feb 2, 2015)

  • AOL for Windows converter now fixes bad MIME encoding headers that resulted in garbled messages

New in Emailchemy 12.1.11 (Jan 3, 2015)

  • Outlook for Mac converter now sets creation date on draft messages

New in Emailchemy 12.1.10 (Oct 30, 2014)

  • Fixed bug with Eudora mishandling international characters
  • Added header row to CSV output

New in Emailchemy 12.1.9 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • Fixed Outlook 2011 for Mac bug with international characters
  • Compatible with Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

New in Emailchemy 12.1.8 (Jul 11, 2014)

  • Fixed Tools menu GUI navigation bug
  • Fixed bug in Entourage converter that was merging IMAP account folders
  • Fixed bug in Entourage converter that was failing on messages with unicode header fields

New in Emailchemy 12.1.4 (May 5, 2014)

  • Compuserve for Mac (MacCIM) converter now handling international characters correctly
  • Updated bundled Java Runtime Environment to 1.7.0_55

New in Emailchemy 12.1.3 (Apr 30, 2014)

  • Setting MacOS filetype and creator codes on mbox files so Outlook 2011 can open them.

New in Emailchemy 12.1.2 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • Bug fix: restored merge mbox files feature

New in Emailchemy 12.1.1 (Feb 1, 2014)

  • Updated Java Runtime
  • Fixed bug preventing demo of Google Apps Uploader

New in Emailchemy 12.1.0 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • Fixed bug that caused some incorrect Outlook Mac 2011 folder names
  • Fixed bug that prevented using the Advanced Converter with .olk14Message files
  • Fixed bug with Google Apps Uploader using deduplication feature

New in Emailchemy 12.0.0 (Jul 29, 2013)

  • Full native support of Outlook for Mac 2011 databases
  • De-duplication of messages
  • IMAP import compatible with Outlook 2013
  • Bundled Java runtimes in Mac and Windows versions
  • "Headers only" output option
  • User interface improvements
  • Bug fixes

New in Emailchemy 11.3.5 (Dec 29, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug in the IMAP server that was causing problems with MailMate
  • Support for Java 7 on MacOSX
  • Boosted memory usage limit so that Emailchemy MemoryBoost should no longer be needed

New in Emailchemy 11.3.4 (Oct 31, 2012)

  • Fixed a resource limit issue in the IMAP server.
  • Gmail uploader now creating all intermediate subfolders with the "full path" auto-label setting.

New in Emailchemy 11.3.3 (Sep 23, 2012)

  • Fixed a crash in the Google Apps Uploader.

New in Emailchemy 11.3.2 (Aug 23, 2012)

  • Outlook PST converter option to extract inter-process records along with messages
  • Outlook OLM converter now extracts digitally signed messages
  • Fixed rare crash when converting French Eudora files
  • Fixed bug in EML output filename template

New in Emailchemy 11.3 (Jul 30, 2012)

  • Google Apps Upload logging
  • Preserves Apple Mail status flags on import and export
  • Improved Eudora status flag preservation and TOC processing
  • MSG converter now compatible with Symantec Enterprise Vault files
  • Fixed bug in Maildir++ output folder hierarchy
  • Fixed crash on UTF-7 header fields

New in Emailchemy 11.2.2 (May 29, 2012)

  • Mac app now signed with Apple's Developer ID (for Mountain Lion Gatekeeper compatibility)
  • New option to create EML files with obfuscated filenames (professional versions only)
  • Apple Mail conversion wizard will now accept any .mbox folder
  • Fixed crash in Mac Outlook OLM file converter when writing to folders with special characters in name
  • Fixed a bug with Eudora converter not including attachments in forwarded received messages
  • Fixed a bug where Google Apps Uploader wasn't overwriting senders in folders named "Sent Messages"

New in Emailchemy 11.2.1 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Excludes RSS feeds from Apple Mail conversions
  • Fixed registration issue on Solaris 11
  • Improved IMAP server performance
  • Improved compatibility of IMAP server with Outlook 2010 for Windows

New in Emailchemy 11.2 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • Better handling of AOL HTML content
  • Entourage converter now includes and identifies both original and user-edited subjects
  • Fixed blank attachment names from PST files
  • Improved handling of corrupt Claris Emailer 2 databases
  • New option for manually deleting the Google Apps Uploader history file

New in Emailchemy 11.1.2 (Oct 10, 2011)

  • Restored compatibility with PowerPC Macs ("universal binary")
  • Fixed max filename size constraint to apply for all character sets
  • Fixed bug in Outlook Express 4 converter that was leaving slashes in filenames

New in Emailchemy 11.1 (Aug 12, 2011)

  • Apple Mail 5 (Mail app in Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion") converter.

New in Emailchemy 11.0.1 (Aug 10, 2011)

  • IMAP server now compatible with Apple Mail 5 (Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion")
  • Apple Mail conversion wizard now parses corrupted mailbox folder structures

New in Emailchemy 11.0 (Jun 27, 2011)

  • Outlook 2011 for Mac .OLM file converter
  • Outlook 2011 for Mac .XML file converter
  • [Professional editions] "nohistory" and custom label features added to Google Apps Uploader CLI
  • Bug fixed: [Professional editions] CLI "batch" mode incorrectly filtering Apple Mail files

New in Emailchemy 10.1.6 (Apr 29, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug preventing some users from activating the full version
  • Corrected some typos in the wizard descriptions
  • Minor changes to installers

New in Emailchemy 10.1.5 (Apr 6, 2011)

  • Fixed an Entourage bug introduced in 10.1.4 that truncated attachments with corrupt names.

New in Emailchemy 10.1.4 (Apr 6, 2011)

  • Fixed issue with Outlook PST converter truncating long (>127) recipient lists
  • Fixed registration bug for names with apostrophes (i.e. O'Connor)
  • [Professional editions] "batch" mode added to CLI
  • [Professional editions] New Outlook PST option to extract all IPM subtypes

New in Emailchemy 10.1 (Feb 7, 2011)

  • Improved IMAP server performance
  • Faster imports
  • New Gmail Uploader feature to fixes Gmail's Sent folder for uploaded mail
  • New option for better handling of international characters in folder names

New in Emailchemy 10.0.0.9 (Nov 24, 2010)

  • New converters!
  • CompuServe for Windows (WinCIM)
  • Outlook .msg files
  • Outlook for Mac 8.x & 2001 (not 2011)
  • Outspring
  • Windows Live Mail
  • Windows Mail
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Entourage 2001 compatibility fixes
  • Powertalk line feeds corrected
  • Apple Mail converter recovers better from missing part files
  • Apple Mail converter now escaping subjects correctly in metadata block
  • IMAP server now supports international characters in folder names

New in Emailchemy 9.9.2 (Jan 14, 2010)

  • Entourage Recovery converter now works with Entourage X (version 10.0)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented conversion of AOL downloaded attachments
  • Fixed a bug that in the Mac OS X Mail format writer that didn't format some email addresses correctly

New in Emailchemy 9.9.1 (Dec 30, 2009)

  • New option for turning off strict RFC-2822 parsing of email header fields in Forensic Edition
  • Fixed a bug in the "Entourage Recovery" converter that caused it to crash before recovering any deleted messages
  • Fixed a bug in the Google Apps Uploader that caused it to crash upon launch

New in Emailchemy 9.9 (Nov 24, 2009)

  • Support for Mail 4.0 (Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard")
  • AOL for Windows converter preserves attachments
  • Entourage Cache converter preserves attachments
  • Improvements to conversion log feature
  • Optional checksums calculated before and after reading
  • Bug fixes for GUI and several converters

New in Emailchemy 9.8.8 (May 26, 2009)

  • Improved Entourage Recovery converter recovers more deleted messages.
  • Entourage converter now extracts meeting accepted/rejected response messages.
  • Fixed Google Apps Uploader's handling of messages with quoted-printable and base64-encoded text bodies.

New in Emailchemy 9.8.7 (Mar 22, 2009)

  • Conversion logging now available in CLI
  • Conversion log now using syslog format
  • GUI Bug fixes for Google Apps Uploader and Entourage Archive wizard

New in Emailchemy 9.8.6 (Mar 3, 2009)

  • Performance improvements for Google Apps Uploader.
  • Configurable number of automatic retries in Google Apps Uploader command line interface.
  • Claris Emailer 2.0 converter now preserves international characters.

New in Emailchemy 9.8.5 (Feb 20, 2009)

  • New Address Harvester option for defining duplicate email addresses.
  • Minor bug fixes for the Google Apps Uploader, Entourage converter and Netscape conversion wizard.

New in Emailchemy 9.8.3 (Dec 29, 2008)

  • Entourage Cache converter now fixes corrupt XML files prior to conversion.
  • Outlook PST converter fixes a message rendering issue with winmail.dat attachments.
  • Outlook PST converter MIME boundaries are no longer random (helps downstream "de-duping").
  • Google Apps Uploader now has a delay between automatic retries to avoid "server busy" messages.

New in Emailchemy 9.8.2 (Oct 9, 2008)

  • Improved Entourage database converter now extracts sent attachments and messages status flags (read, priority, replied, forwarded, flagged).
  • Embedded IMAP server compatibile with latest Thunderbird Improved handling of corrupt PST files.

New in Emailchemy 9.8.1 (Aug 18, 2008)

  • Configurable memory allocation (with use of Emailchemy Memory Boost) for handling very large email archives better.
  • New option for defining default sender in Claris Emailer 1.x email.
  • Improved Eudora for Mac converter now uses the table of contents data found in resource forks.
  • Outlook PST HTML message bodies that define alternate charsets now being transcoded correctly.
  • Outlook PST attachment file names now being converted to UTF-8 for better handling of international characters.
  • AOL for Windows wizard no longer case sensitive when searching for PFC files.
  • Entourage cache files from all versions of Entourage now supported.

New in Emailchemy 9.8 (Jul 3, 2008)

  • New and improved Eudora converter with better handling of HTML fomatting and embedded content
  • Entourage cache file converter (for .vRgeMessage and .vRge08Message files)
  • New option to write log of IMAP ImportServer sessions (CLI only)
  • General API for embedded use (embedded licensing required)

New in Emailchemy 9.7 (Apr 30, 2008)

  • Command-line interfaces (CLI's) for Emailchemy, IMAP Importserver and Google Apps Uploader (pro versions only)
  • Export/Import conversion settings in the Preferences window (pro versions only)
  • Quickmail Pro reader now preserves status flags (read, flagged, importance)
  • IMAP ImportServer now compatible with JavaMail clients
  • New option to set Eudora reader default charset to UTF-8
  • New option to ignore folder heirarchy in source data
  • Outlook PST converter improvements
  • GUI improvements

New in Emailchemy 1.9.4 (Oct 15, 2007)

  • RFC-2822 output now compatible with JavaMail
  • Outlook PST converter now repairs inconsistent MIME structures found in PST files
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Entourage now importing RGE files created on Windows computers
  • MIME boundaries now guaranteed unique
  • Outlook PST converter no longer base-64 encodes text or html attachments