![]() ![]() When you try to make it work across the 4 different Outlooks (OL2000, OL-XP, OL2003, OL2007), each one presents a new set of problems. There are a whole bunch of nuances (cached mode, exchange mode, internet mode, online/offline, etc) and many APIs available (OOM, MAPI, CDO, ECS, etc). Because Outlook/Exchange don’t have APIs to do this efficiently, the only real way to do it is to start combing through folders trying to find what changes exist. When you next start Outlook, you need to make sure these changes are reflected in the index. The problem is that changes can happen in your exchange mailbox while Outlook is not running. Building incremental indexing in Outlook is quite tricky. Google Desktop Search does this too, but Lookout never did.īut it brings up an interesting point which requires some background. ![]() Most notable is that WDS actually indexes new & changed email in real-time. Third, while lots of people really liked Lookout, it did lack some key features which were put into Windows Desktop Search. But I know for a fact that was not true in this case. I know people like to think Microsoft buys products to squash them, and it’s easy to cite this downtime as an example of it. He makes it sound like it was down for a long time I think the total down period was between 4-7 days. Second, Joel wrote that “ Microsoft finally put Lookout up for download…”. I had a couple of thoughts about the article.įirst – I’m so pleased to hear such nice things about Lookout when it hasn’t been updated for nearly 3 years □ Thanks! Today, Joel on Software wrote about Outlook 2007’s recent search performance fixes, and mentioned Lookout. ![]()
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