Gee... David

My brother's email signature includes the phrase,  "If you can't find it, why have it?".  Just today I needed to find an email that I received from one of my colleagues. I new that it was sent in December, I knew that it had an attachment, and I knew that it referred to a vendor by name. I have used the 'multiple words' feature of Notes searching on many occasions but I can't specify a time range, easily, and the fact that the document contains an attachment.

I installed the personal mail search tool from OmniFind and was delighted with the speed at which my mail was indexed and the ease with which I could do semantic searches.

You can get this tool from IBM's AlphaWorks here:
 http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/emailsearch/?open&S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWAW.

After you download the software installation if easy and fast. I installed on an XP SP3 machine running Notes 8.5 Beta 2.


Your first action is to provide your Notes password:



Next you will select the mail files (local replicas) you wish to index:


Once you confirm the installation and it completes the indexing server will start:

It appears that the JVM for this server is about 38 mb. Not too serious of a footprint.

The interface is browser based and you can configure the indexer for different impact levels:


Once done, there is a tutorial to get you started creating your queries and, after I increased the level of impact to moderate, I found that the results were everything I could hope for an alpha project. I hope this semantic approach to searching will get some traction in the Lotus space because it is much more efficient than the aging and limited search interface of the Notes client.


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