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Search Tools for Personal Use

The Find tool (and Advanced Find) searches across folders in a single Personal Folders file or in your Exchange Server mailbox. However, it cannot search subfolders in another user's mailbox or in a public folder. You can get searchable subfolders in a public folder by adding one of the Enterprise Search Tools, which generally rely on index server technology.

The search engine used by Outlook 2003 and older versions is slow and often finds items in an unexpected order (older items before newest items).  

Outlook 2007's Instant Search used the Windows Desktop Search engine to provide instant searches.

 

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Tools

80-20 Retriever   Personal search portal for Outlook 98 and later. Provides full-text searching of all messages and attachments. Automatically creates folders for correspondence with Outlook contacts. (Formerly Personal Knowledge Portal.)
askSam   Tool for organizing and searching information from multiple sources, now including Outlook messages (via import).
ClearContext Information Management System   Now available in two versions, a free personal edition and a more powerful professional version, ClearContext IMS is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that automatically prioritizes, organizes, and color-codes the e-mail in your inbox, placing the most important e-mails from the most important senders are at the top of the inbox, ready to be dealt with immediately. Less important e-mails, such as newsletters and correspondence from low priority senders, are placed further down in the inbox and junk/spam e-mails are moved to the bottom. Additionally, ClearContext IMS automates the e-mail filing process to help you keep your entire mailbox organized. All of this is done automatically by analyzing existing e-mail -no configuration or software "training" is required. Version 3. Supports Outlook 2007. Version 3.0
Content Surveyor   Multi-lingual document management and content analysis program that can index and search Outlook folders, as well as many other kinds of information.
Enfish   Personal desktop portal and search tool combining Outlook data with other content.
ForKeeps   Keep your old Outlook mail messages, as well as newsgroup messages, in a database with indexed search capability.
Lookeen   Lookeen offers lightning fast search for email in all Stores. Reduce time for organizing and filing Outlook items. Supports Outlook 2003 and 2007. Many bug fixes and small improvements Version 1.2.1.700
LookOut   Lookout is lightning-fast search for your email, files, and desktop integrated with Outlook. Built on top of a powerful search engine, Lookout is a personal search engine that can search all of your email from directly within Outlook - in seconds.
Nelson Email Organizer   Conversation tracking, searches; automatic refiling into folders by date, status or correspondent; showing folders with unread messages and other features for e-mail management.
OutIndex   Indexes all email messages -- including attachments -- and documents on your hard drive and network so that you can search across all that information. Also includes a bulk mailer that allows you to send individual messages to selected contacts or members of a distribution list. The mailer supports both plain text and HTML, allows you to send attachments, includes merge fields for personalization, and can use either Outlook contacts or recipients from external databases.
OutlookHelper   Free tool to manage incoming mail, create animated and voice messages, automatically save specific types incoming file attachments, notify the user of incoming attachments in the system tray, and provides some virus scanning based on subject, body, and attachment rules. Allows you to store data at the company's web site and search for specific attachments in your folders. The "mail chat" feature triggers Outlook security prompts. Outlook 2000 or later.
QSearchfolders   Create Search folders in any version of Outlook, searching all folders or specific folders in the background and search folders are updated automatically if the folders change. QSearchfolders supports all folder types, including contacts. Because search folders is a feature of MAPI store providers, all search folders will remain working even after de-installation of QSerachFolders. All versions of Outlook are supported.
X1   Indexes Outlook mail and files on your computer for fast searches. Sends back a daily search log that contains no personal information; you can opt out of detailed logging. Available in free and pro versions. (Formerly known as Find)
ZipOut   Outlook COM Add-in that automatically compresses mail attachments for all types of Outlook items, both outgoing messages and items in folders. Maintains an index of attachments, so you can find and open them easily, but does not index the full text of attached documents. Can be configured to automatically compress .exe and other file types blocked by the Outlook Email Security Update, so that recipients will get a .zip file they can open without difficulty.
Zoot   Add search and "information processing" to Outlook data by synchronizing it with a Zoot database, which supports quick query, quick filter, folder rules, and other functions.
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  • To search for an e-mail address in Contacts in Outlook 2000
  • Updated Apr 07 2008

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