weak search function

[Joe]

Too bad MS never gives us an email program with a good search function. (the
Find feature)
Joe

 

[DL]

If you are dissatisfied download or pay for another mail program, there are
many to choose from

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Works fine here. I use Ctrl+Shift+F.

 

[Joe]

right, but serious search engines can be search in more sophisticated ways-
especially needed if you have several thousand emails- it's ancient computer
science- MS is a extremely rich company that ought to be able to come with a
better search engine. Sure, I can download another but I paid top dollar for
Vista Supreme. One of their programmers could probably do it in a day.
Joe


Works fine here. I use Ctrl+Shift+F.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The search box that the cursor is in when you click Vista's Start
button works quite well for finding messages.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Here is a little trick. I am not sure how well this works but I think it is
worth trying.

Microsoft did at least one thing good with Windows Mail. Each message is a
separate file in the file system (your C: or whatever). You can use a search
utility that searches files, separate from Windows Mail. The main problem is
that the search might get confused by the HTML or the headers and any
messages with attachments would at least require extra time, but I think you
understand all that. If you open any of the files that are found, then they
would (should) be opened by Windows Mail.