I've given up on WDS now. Maybe I'll try it again in a few months. As most
of my mail is synched with GMail I'll just rely on searching that for the
time being.
"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "NewWorldMan" <kevin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:6F9F846E-E502-4BA8-8C7B-13F9372B53A5@xxxxxx
> <QP> Quote:
>> OK, I've looked at the various discussions of this and I still can't get
>> it to work. In particular I've checked the store folder, checked eml and
>> nws and verified the indexing service is running. I've rebuilt the WDS
>> index and still no joy.
>>
>> A while back I tried WDS 3 and had no joy either. To be honest, even if I
>> get it working by further fiddling around the experience shouldn't be
>> like this. It should "just work." To be fair, it does in fact do this for
>> Outlook, as I've tried it at work. WLM has been out quite a while now so
>> I would expect a new version of WDS to work out of the box with it.
>>
>> I do have Copernic Desktop Search on the system which I think is still
>> the best of the desktop search products. Unfortunately, it does not
>> support WLM, hence why I'm trying WDS. However, it won't be on my PC for
>> much longer at this rate.
>>
>> I'm normally a huge fan of Microsoft's but they do seem to be losing
>> their touch recently.
> </QP>
>
>
> On this one I agree. Far too much the look of WIP...
>
> BTW even though Desktop is part of this newsgroup's name
> and even though WLMail is the only app in XP that uses WDS
> this newsgroup may not be the best forum for discussing this.
>
> E.g. try the MSDN Windows Desktop Search Help forum
> but first make sure that the WS 4.0 Taskbar Search at least
> can find things in the WLMail Message Store. Then notice
> that the WLMail "word wheel" (aka Ctrl-e Search bar) at least
> allows you to find things using multiple strings (with implied
> Boolean AND operators) but that can only produce hits from
> the bodies of messages when the wsearch service is actually
> running and has indexed those messages.
>
> FWIW I think that this poster has (except for an obvious typo [1])
> accurately but not objectively characterized exactly what WLMail
> does with WS 4.0 but YMMV:
>
> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...08127&SiteID=1
>
> (MSDN Search Community Forums for
> "live mail"
> )
>
>
> <quote>
> all but the most basic of search functionality is supported
> in the Live Mail interface, and the pertinent fields, such as sender
> and date do not display in the WDS interface for WLMail.
> </quote>
>
>
> [1] FWIW I read that as "NONE but the most basic..." <eg>
>
> Quote:
>>
>> My PC is Win XP SP2.
>>
>> Kevin
>
>
> Me too! ; )
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
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