MailXaminer vs PST Walker

MailXaminer is Windows email forensics software for documenting, examining, analyzing, and reporting on email evidence. It works with material from cloud platforms, offline mail clients, disk images, Skype databases, and third-party mobile forensic tools. Supported services include Gmail, Office 365, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, iCloud, GSuite, and IMAP-based services. Search options include general, fuzzy, proximity, wildcard, and regular-expression searches; OCR can find image content and attachment keywords. Analysis covers links, entities, timelines, images, word clouds, email headers, and skin tones. The software describes examination of encrypted, deleted, or corrupted email data, and recovery from PST, OST, and EDB files; NSF repair is excluded. Case tools support activity logs and collaboration among investigators. Evidence exports cover more than 20 formats, with investigation reports in PDF and CSV. It runs on Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2016. Pricing starts at $199/mo. There is no free plan, but a free trial is offered.

PST Walker is a Windows program for opening Outlook PST, OST, MSG, and EML files without Outlook, with tools for recovering deleted items and folders. It searches Outlook items by keyword, Boolean queries, filters, and recent searches. Users can export or convert items to PST, MBOX, MSG, EML, and CSV formats. Recovery includes deleted or purged emails, contacts, and calendar entries, as well as Outlook Rules and Alerts. The maker says conversion processes files locally without uploading file data to its or third-party servers. A free demo limits export to 15 emails per folder; the full version allows unlimited export. The listed Lite License costs $32.95 a year, Pro costs $64.95, paid once, Business $99.95, paid once, Technician $169.95, paid once, Standard $249.95, paid once, and Floating $449.75, paid once. Enterprise pricing is custom. Licenses are one-time purchases without automatic recurring charges, though maintenance expiration ends updates and support for perpetual licenses. Supported systems include Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7, and Windows Server 2012–2025, with.NET Framework 4.7.2 or later required.