Comments on: Review: SpeedFiler 2.0 – Email Filer On Steroids

By: Ralf

Ralf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:39:41 +0000

I use SpeedFiler with my Outlook 2003 and it is very good.

A customer of mine is using Thunderbird with at least 100 folders but until now I couldn’t find anything like SpeedFiler for Thunderbird.

Nostalgy is not the same as SpeedFiler is Falco Unfortunately

By: Chris West

Chris West — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:56:46 +0000

@nzadhall Every email that I send or receive passes through my speedfiler workflow; I'm a filer, not a stacker. http://bit.ly/1CWy5h

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:20:07 +0000

Falko – I’m also trying to find a Thunderbird alternative for Speedfiler (so that the clients orginal email AND my email reply are filed in their folder) can you recommend any? Joe

By: R-U-Bn

R-U-Bn — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:24:22 +0000

Falko, Nostalgy doesn’t have the “File after send” feature. Cause otherwise, I would go for Thunderbird, honestly!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:44:30 +0000

I have tried compressing the pst, deleting the pst and allowing Outlook to recreate, rebuilding the IMAP indexes (even though there is no noticeable network traffic during the two minute delay), and anything else that I could think of that is under my control. Alas, nothing has helped.

Prior to Speedfiler, I just used ctrl+shift+v, Outlook would produce the folder list in 1-2 seconds, I would type part of the name, and save. I set the inbox as my default save folder, so I could select original and reply and file them at once. It works ok as a work-flow, but Speedfiler cuts down processing when it guesses the folder correctly, and as it learns and associates.

I honestly don’t understand the two minute pause when it searches for folders. What makes it more odd is that there are a handful of folder names that it will match almost instantly when I type them.

As for the 4500 folders, it is one folder per institution that I deal with, and it’s quite helpful when going back to prior conversation, so rearranging isn’t an option.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:28:48 +0000

4500 folders is a staggering amount of data for any 3rd party plug in to deal with. I’d also question from a productivty standpoint if that may be harming your workflow.

But thats a topic for another day.

Have you tried compressing your pst? Inbox repair might help the speed a bit too.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:55:23 +0000

I like SpeedFiler, but I would like to share that I’ve run into a serious performance issue with SpeedFiler, and Claritude ignores my request for help to find the cause. I’m the poster child for needing this product, with 4500 folders accessed using IMAP to a Dovecot server. When SpeedFiler guess the right folder, it’s instanteous, but if I have to type part of a folder name for a search, I have to wait 2 minutes with Outlook CPU utilization spiked at full the whole time.

SpeedFiler tends to guess right, but every time I don’t see the right folder in the suggestions, I cringe knowing that I’ll have to wait 2 minutes for it to find the right folder. I keep hoping that a future revision will correct this behavior.

I strongly encourage anyone considering SpeedFiler to test it in thoroughly first. This problem did surface during my evaluation, but I’ve chosen to live with it for the advantages when it does work.

By: peter bravado

peter bravado — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:06:37 +0000

public folders on exchange are a plague and not what you expect in terms of functionality, speed, etc. dont expect a similar experience to what you get on your exchange mailbox.

i suggest a different type of shared tool such as shared mailboxes (still cumbersome) or collaboration platforms such as ‘basecamp’.

my 2 cents. good luck.

on speedfiler: its generally been great. i would say 90% satisfaction esp with outlook 2007.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:17:34 +0000

hmm… I’ll ask the developer. Personally, I don’t use the public folder feature of Speedfiler, so I don’t know for sure.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:04:53 +0000

I have been testing Speedfil in our company and it works great for filing mails in folders in your own inbox.

However we are planning to use Public Folders on our Exchange server, and the tests we did with Speedfiler so far shows that it has serious problems finding newly created public folders.
Sometimes it takes up to 2 days before a new public folder is searchable in Speedfiler.

(We have activated the Speedfiler option to include Public Folders)

If anyone have any ideas how to reindex /rescan the folders in Speedfiler I would be very happy!

Thanks in advance!