Can someone search for email online? How does one do that?

Outlook 2003 email search by keywords

• Hi, I would like an advanced search engine tool for email filing, so that I can search by one or multiple keywords that I optionally create. I have emails that span across different subjects, and at the moment I am "copying" each email and having to put it into each folder. I have tried many add-ons from Microsoft, as well as the Google Desktop - but I find them too generic as sometimes I don't want to include an email from someone who mentions a certain phrase like "Costa Rica". Preferably I would like an add-on to Microsoft Outlook that will also search through word docs, excel spreadsheets and pdf's attached to emails, but haven't found anything to date. If not, email HTMP/plain text file searches would be great. For example, I may get an email back from you and not decide to "categorise" it, because I find the information of no benefit. On the other hand, I may receive a response that helps me and I can use in the future. I would then opt-in to create my own keywords such as "Search tools", "Google help", "search Outlook", "Word find". Any help would be appreciated.

• Answer:

  Hi sparklegirl-ga, Since you indicated your satisfaction with my suggested solution to the question, I am posting it as the official answer. -------------------------------------------- - LookOut email search for Outlook (http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/) Price: Free From the website: "You can use Lookout to search your: - Email messages - Contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, etc. - Data from exchange, POP, IMAP, PST files, Public Folders - Files on your computer or other computers" The LookOut addin provides extremely fast searches, and sports extensive wildcards and search tailoring capabilities. It even searches through attachments (Word/excel/powerpoint/text and html,with an option to add other extensions).Best of all, you can save the search query you have constructed and reuse it later. -------------------------------------------- As for searching through zip files you have stored away in separate folders, LookOut allows to to index the contents of folders also. You can add any folder to LookOut's index by going to the Options screen and clicking the "Add Files..." button. This will allow you to search on the names of the files inside the zip archive, but not on the contents of those files. ------------------------------------------------- Hope this helps. If you need any clarifications, just ask! Regards, Theta-ga :) ============================================ Google Search Terms Used: Lookout email search