Comments on: Desktop Search, OpenOffice and Thunderbird (IMAP) http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2006/04/28/desktop-search-openoffice-and-thunderbird-imap/ A blog about my research work, computer and internet stuff, personal life. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:42:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stephen http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2006/04/28/desktop-search-openoffice-and-thunderbird-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-19013 Stephen Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:09:53 +0000 http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/?p=8#comment-19013 Opera as an email does a good job of IMAP and of email search. Alas, it does a terrible job of email composition (it used not to support html at all, and still very limited), so I still use Thunderbird. But it would be nice if Copernic could preview Thunderbird IMAP data .... Opera as an email does a good job of IMAP and of email search.
Alas, it does a terrible job of email composition (it used not to support html at all, and still very limited), so I still use Thunderbird. But it would be nice if Copernic could preview Thunderbird IMAP data ….

]]> By: Werner http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2006/04/28/desktop-search-openoffice-and-thunderbird-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-18833 Werner Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:52:36 +0000 http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/?p=8#comment-18833 That's true. My main concern is also searching the mail. Finding something in files is nice, but these Desktop search programs are not up to the task at least for older systems. I found a nice alternativ, locate32 (http://www.locate32.net/) which indexes only the filenames of all you drives and this very fast (less than 1 min for 50GB (small files) or so). You can then look for files using the filenames, which also happens very fast. This is good enough for me at the moment. That’s true. My main concern is also searching the mail. Finding something in files is nice, but these Desktop search programs are not up to the task at least for older systems. I found a nice alternativ, locate32 (http://www.locate32.net/) which indexes only the filenames of all you drives and this very fast (less than 1 min for 50GB (small files) or so). You can then look for files using the filenames, which also happens very fast. This is good enough for me at the moment.

]]> By: Ale http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2006/04/28/desktop-search-openoffice-and-thunderbird-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-18831 Ale Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:18:13 +0000 http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/?p=8#comment-18831 Thanks for your reply Werner. Mailstore does look very promising. Imported my 2GB/2000 emails IMAP account from Thunderbird, and was impressed at the speed of searches. After fiddling with Copernic, I realized that all I really wanted was a tool to search my mail, after all, I do keep the rest of my files neatly organized and have specific purpose cataloguing tools for my pictures and music. Thanks for the suggestion! Thanks for your reply Werner. Mailstore does look very promising. Imported my 2GB/2000 emails IMAP account from Thunderbird, and was impressed at the speed of searches. After fiddling with Copernic, I realized that all I really wanted was a tool to search my mail, after all, I do keep the rest of my files neatly organized and have specific purpose cataloguing tools for my pictures and music. Thanks for the suggestion!

]]> By: Werner http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2006/04/28/desktop-search-openoffice-and-thunderbird-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-18825 Werner Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:53:19 +0000 http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/?p=8#comment-18825 Hi Ale, no I don't since although I still regards Copernic Desktop Search as one of the better Desktop Search programs, it was a resource hog on my old laptop and had severe problems with Thunderbird and/or IMAP as you have. I suggest you try out Mailstore home: http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx . This program you can use to download/synchronize you IMAP mails to a local database. You hit two flies at once - you can search through your emails if you need and can also make a backup of all your emails. This works quite well for my 6GB/50000 emails IMAP account. HTH, Werner Hi Ale,

no I don’t since although I still regards Copernic Desktop Search as one of the better Desktop Search programs, it was a resource hog on my old laptop and had severe problems with Thunderbird and/or IMAP as you have. I suggest you try out Mailstore home: http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx . This program you can use to download/synchronize you IMAP mails to a local database. You hit two flies at once – you can search through your emails if you need and can also make a backup of all your emails. This works quite well for my 6GB/50000 emails IMAP account.

HTH, Werner

]]> By: Ale http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2006/04/28/desktop-search-openoffice-and-thunderbird-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-18757 Ale Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:32:52 +0000 http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/?p=8#comment-18757 I am curious if you are still using Copernic successfully with Thunderbird. While it seems able to index my IMAP mail (available for offline reading), it can not show it on the preview pane, and can't see the body of the messages. Do you see the same thing? Thanks! I am curious if you are still using Copernic successfully with Thunderbird. While it seems able to index my IMAP mail (available for offline reading), it can not show it on the preview pane, and can’t see the body of the messages. Do you see the same thing?

Thanks!

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