On 03/11/30 8:22 +0900 (JST), "Dan Warne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I the only one that thinks Entourage's full text searching is > unacceptably slow? > I agree.
> It's -way- slower than Outlook on Windows. > Or than Eudora on the Mac. > So the purpose of my email is twofold: > 1) To hopefully catch the eye of someone on the Entourage development team > and seed the idea of building in some indexing functionality into the next > version of Entourage > 2) To ask if anyone knows of any third party solutions to make search faster > in Entourage. It would be great to have indexing in Entourage. But what to do in the meantime? I don't know a third-party solution that will work _within_ E'rage, but there is the option of archiving your email and using a different application to search it. Archiving (or backing up) to a non-E'rage format is a good idea as a matter of principle, and if you're archiving on, say, a weekly or monthly basis, you'd probably find the archive adequate for most of your searching needs. A couple of specific possibilities: 1. Archive w Eudora Eudora is free in "sponsored" mode (and the little corner ads should be bearable if you're just using it for searching). It doesn't index, but it does have a fast and flexible search engine. In Eudora, each mailbox is a separate file, which allows more efficient synchronizing than with a single database. Also, the mailboxes are text files, so if necessary you can open and read them with a text editor (or with MS Word, for that matter). I was a happy paying user of Eudora for many years until I succumbed to the attractions of E'rage. --Catch: Eudora cannot immediately open the .mbox files exported from Entourage; first, you have to change the file type to TEXT, which is a bit of a chore. (I've done it with Jedit; also, I believe Allen Watson has created a script that will do it for you, but in any case it's an extra task to attend to.) 2. Archive w PowerMail PowerMail can directly open .mbox files from E'rage, and it indexes all your mail. I've heard that searches are very fast. --Catch: It costs $49. I've thought about both of these possibilities myself, and I did a one-shot backup of my E'rage mail to Eudora last month, but I haven't established a regular archiving system myself. FWIW -- Jeremy Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Setagaya-ku, Tokyo -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
