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Hi Gordon

There are a number of iFilters available that allow indexing of .msg files for both desktop search and windows file search. www.ifiltershop.com

However if you are saving emails to shared drives I would advise implementing Microsoft Enterprise Search express which as a very scalable and manageable system which is also free!

This would allow you to search across your enterprise from a single interface.

 

Drop me a line if you need any more info.

 

Regards

Dave Nixon

 

 

 

From: The UK Records Management mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gordon Hobbs
Sent: 21 February 2008 08:32
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Searching Outlook .msg files

 

Dear all,

 

I am investigating the issue of saving email to shared drives in Microsoft Outlook's default .msg format.  It would appear that unlike other Microsoft documents, the default Windows Explorer search function does not search the content of saved .msg emails.  The default search functionality only searches the file name.

 

Following some research, I have discovered that Microsoft have an add-in available to improve .msg searching (Microsoft Article ID: 917402).  This add-in lets you search all of the following elements of .msg files:

Message body
Subject
From
From name
From address
To name
To address
CC name
CC address
Doc title prefix
Sent date
Received date
Primary date
Conversation ID
Attachment names

I would be grateful for feedback from anyone out there who has experience of searching .msg files and more specifically if you have experience of applying the add-in mentioned above.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Gordon

 

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