

The dormant folder contained e-mail that was old and inactive but not ready for the archive bin.

It created a main catalog that divided the e-mail into four categories: new, spam, current and dormant. NEO performed an initial synchronization on my Outlook e-mail that took less than five minutes. NEO is in a separate window, so you can toggle between Outlook and NEO.

You can keep your regular Outlook folder open all day. NEO doesn’t compete with Outlook or try to replace it. In just a few minutes, I deleted about 300 messages NEO had labeled bulk mail. It created a folder called “bulk mail unsorted,” where it put all the e-mail messages not addressed directly to me. NEO was like my own personal summer employee. I would throw out the junk mail and keep the mail addressed directly to him. Each day I had to open the paper mail and sort it before I put it in my boss’s inbox. The software reminded me of a summer job I once had, long before e-mail was part of office life. The default setting is such that when I launched Outlook, NEO also automatically launched. Caelo recommends that you open Outlook before launching NEO. It works with any version of Microsoft Outlook except Outlook Express. You download NEO from the company’s Web site, NEO is really an indexing tool for Outlook. One such product is NEO Pro 4.0 from Caelo Software, and after a week or so of using it, I’ve taken the first few steps toward taming my e-mail monster. On a few rare occasions, my hoarding instincts have turned up an e-mail that saves the day, but for the most part all that old e-mail just sits around clogging the cyber pipes.Ī whole software industry has sprung up to help people like me, offering software products that organize your e-mail. It’s difficult to admit it, but I have several thousand e-mail messages fermenting in my Microsoft Outlook inbox. My name is Trudy, and I’m an e-mail hoarder. Cons: Similar products are available for less. Pros: Does a great job of indexing and organizing unruly Outlook e-mail. Performance: A Features: A Ease of Use: B+ Value: B+ Price: $49.95
