On or near 8/27/01 8:12 AM, Lewis Pennock at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Is it not indexing the message body, and if so, is there a way to have
> Entourage index index the body text of a message? If not, is there anyway
> to use Sherlock's document indexing to search Entourage messages?
>
Nope , it does not index; in fact, as I recall, the db file is (for reasons
that escape me but which seemed reasonable when the MS folks told the list)
kept in Unicode, and there is some kind of translation required to even look
at the message body, which is why things slow so badly. The crash you
encountered isn't normal, though. I've searched through thousands of records
successfully; it just takes a lot of time.
I am sure MS is aware of this as a problem and is working on it for the next
release of Entourage.
In the meanwhile: No way to use Sherlock. The best you can do is to get one
of the FileMaker archiving packages (I recommend John Carlsen's eMessage
Archiver, now at beta 17, which looks to be the final before actual release;
you can download at <http://homepage.mac.com/ThinkAgain/Mac/eMA/>
I regularly archive everything older than 14 days, with special exceptions
(eMA allows you, for instance, to exclude flagged messages or certain
priorities), and then delete them, which keeps the main database lean and
quick to search for recent messages. FileMaker can index text fields, and
the searching, even with tens of thousands of messages, is like lightning.
Although FMP itself won't highlight found text in the message, Carlsen
includes a method of locating text strings within messages that works very
well.
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