On 11/6/2000 8:52 AM, "Dylan Drazen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
What criteria are you using in your search? Some criteria are very well
optimized because of the database (for example, search for all unread
messages), while others are much slower (like searching for text in the
body).
Dan
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