I agree that the speed of the extended search needs improvement. Workarounds
I've found and used:
1. Don't keep everything in the Entourage database file. Archive to a
HyperCard or FileMaker database using John Carlsen's utilities. FMP searches
things a lot faster than any mail client ever will. I try to keep my current
mail database under 2000 messages. These archives let you reply, forward,
resend and so on.
2. Archive messages to mbx files by dragging folders, and then use BBEDit
(or BBEdit Lite) to do a multi-file search; very fast. (Okay if all you want
to do is find, copy and read info. Not so great for replying, etc.)
On or near 11/6/2000 8:52 AM, Dylan Drazen at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> Why is the extended search feature in Entourage so painfully slow? A
> TidBITS editor announced last week that he switched back to Eudora mainly
> because of this.
>
> http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06173
>
> Is it because of the way Entourage (and OE) stores email in its
> "proprietary" database, and not as text files? Eudora stores each mailbox
> as a separate text file in the Mac OS level. Does Microsoft plan to make
> the search feature faster? I use it a lot, and with over 25,000 messages in
> my database, it certainly takes too long.
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