Outlook should let me search multiple mailboxes

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How can your programmers go to the effort of making a dialog box with the
message 'You can only select folders from the same information service' and
not think: "Wait a minute, that really SUCKS!" ?

Honestly why have an advanced search when it is so dreadfully crippled? I am
actually flabbergasted that version 8 or whatever this is actually can't
search the email folders it displays.

Please spend less time on things like a taskbar icon that doesn't go away
even when you've read all your messages and more on basic functionality that
should have been there years ago.

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Aaron Oxford said:
How can your programmers go to the effort of making a dialog box with
the message 'You can only select folders from the same information
service' and not think: "Wait a minute, that really SUCKS!" ?
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I'll be sure to have a word with my programmers about that.
Honestly why have an advanced search when it is so dreadfully
crippled? I am actually flabbergasted that version 8 or whatever this
is actually can't search the email folders it displays.

Please spend less time on things like a taskbar icon that doesn't go
away even when you've read all your messages and more on basic
functionality that should have been there years ago.
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You could check out MSN Desktop Search or Google Desktop.
 
LMAO - so I should install more software from third-parties in order to make
up for the fact MS got it wrong?!?!

I don't want MORE of my screen real-estate taken up with useless bars and
icons, if you read carefully you'll see I'm already annoyed enough at that.
 
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Aaron Oxford said:
LMAO - so I should install more software from third-parties in order
to make up for the fact MS got it wrong?!?!

I don't want MORE of my screen real-estate taken up with useless bars
and icons, if you read carefully you'll see I'm already annoyed
enough at that.
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Re your annoyance - OK, but I'm not sure anyone is forcing you at gunpoint
to use Outlook in the first place, are they. Anyway, MSN desktop search
isn't third party. Neither is Lookout, any longer.

I don't think this is really an Outlook thing per se. It's more likely due
to the Exchange database structure. How many mailboxes do you connect to at
once anyway, that you wouldn't know which received what? I keep 90% of my
data in my main mailbox - the others are just for convenience. And I toss
business related mail into clearly named public folders when I'm done with
it and just want an archive. Perhaps this won't work for you, but it does
for me.
 
Are you guys still working on this? How far are you along? Will it ever be
implemented? it's 3 years since the original post was made.

I'm currently in a business environment (vista/ Exhange) and i'm working
with 3 additional mailboxes and it's really troublemsome not able to search
within these mailboxes at once.

Is there some workaround ?
 
Michelle King said:
was the gun shot crack necessary?
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To whom are you talking? Please QUOTE the post you are replying to - this is
NOT a chat room or a web forum, this is a UseNet newsgroup.
 
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