WDS 4.0 - Lack of Live Mail integration on XP sucks. | The Coffeehouse

NitzWalsh

I'm sure some people use their PC's like me - Outlook for all office material, and Windows Live desktop for all personal email. Between the two of them I have nearly 2GB of mail.

Now of course with Vista and WDS 4.0 this is no problem. However with XP, the problem is that while you want WDS to index your live mail contents, the results outside of searching from within Live Mail directly are pointless as you just get the filename of the .eml files returned to you.

For those of us with two large mail databases on our systems, this seriously messes up the results and makes WDS almost useless if you have a large amount of WL mail you're indexing. I'll have the same contacts in both systems and naturally over this amount of time a lot of the same keywords, so when I search the results are dominated by a huge listing of gibberish filenames.

Is this planning to be remedied anytime soon, especially as you're nagged both in Outlook and Live mail to download WDS 4.0? Or is it going to be like me asking for the re-addition of the Programs category when you're searching? Smiley

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

Yeah I had that problem. 123456789abcd.eml really means nothing to me.

BHpaddock

Sorry, but at this point I wouldn't expect new features to be added to XP...

Though in this case, it sounds like the problem may be with the WL Mail app and not WS4.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

I did some investigation and it turns out the problem is that in XP the .eml extension is mapped to the generic mapifilt.dll in the indexer options. There should really be a dedicated IFilter to deal wil .eml files (in order to extract their relevant metadata), but it looks like there isn't any available (we checked only on gallery.live.com)...

magicalclick

Time to switch? If it is work computer, tell your boss he is too cheap.

NitzWalsh

In reply to magicalclick

#Oct 2nd, 2008 @ 1:48 PM

Nope, it's my home PC. I still use it largely in XP as game performance is significantly better (still) in some titles on my rig, but naturally I don't want to have to reboot to get some productivity done (which for those apps I greatly prefer Vista).