Another Australian developed application, Quick Mail Sort 2.0 can, according to the NetroWorx Web site, "make sorting your Inbox in Outlook really simple. At the push of a button Quick Mail Sort sorts e-mail you have read in your inbox to a set of dynamically created folders. Quick Mail Sort uses information you have already provided in your contact list to determine where to file an e-mail.
What's more Quick Mail Sort is blazingly fast. It can sort over two thousand e-mails in under a minute."
The application is designed to run under Microsoft Outlook only. In fact, it has no separate program launch icon -- the whole thing is tacked into Outlook, which makes it very easy to find when you need to. There is no specific configuration needed either, with all the configuration coming down to creating main folders where the data should be sorted to and then selecting from the lists provided in Mail Sort which folders to sort mail from, and which folders to sort them into.
Quick Mail Sort as its name suggests is not a searching program like the other three applications in this review. Instead it simply sorts e-mails in a relatively limited but nonetheless effective way. It is certainly quick; we sorted over 1000 messages in less than a minute.
Once the application is launched, the operator is presented with options to set the source and destination folders for the messages that are to be sorted. There are five check boxes that can be selected too. Two of these direct messages with certain characteristics to alternative locations selected by the operator. Those characteristics are hard coded into the program, namely: sort messages where the company field for the contact is empty to a specific directory, and sort messages from people not in Outlook contact to a specific directory. The other three check boxes cover subfolders, unread messages, and flagged messages.
The way Quick Mail Sort handles the sorted files is very clever; it strips the domain from any given address. Say I have some messages in the folder that is to be sorted from kire@rmit.com. The program creates a subdirectory called rmit.com, and in that a subdirectory called kire@rmit.com where it stores every message from kire. If I have messages from steve@rmit.com it creates a subdirectory in the rmit.com folder called steve@rmit.com and stores those messages there.
This application only works with Microsoft Outlook. Depending on the operator's creativity, most e-mail sorting tasks could possibly be completed with this application. It would be nice to see other sorting options included such as being able to extract just certain e-mails from any given folder instead of having to process and sort every message. This application would be great for users to run before archiving/storing messages, because it would then be very easy to look up specific e-mail trails from certain companies or contacts without having to wade through thousands of messages. This is more specific tool than the other we looked at, but it is quite well executed.
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| Product | Quick Mail Sort |
| Price | AU$46 per user |
| Vendor | Netroworx |
| Phone | 07 3511 6600 |
| Web | www.netroworx.com |
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| Only supports Outlook. | |
| Futureproofing |  ½ |
| Limited usage; specifically designed to sort e-mail very fast. | |
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| Very well priced for such a specific task oriented application. | |
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| A 90-day warranty is better than nothing. | |
| Rating |  ½ |
