Copernic Desktop Search 1.2 - Email Search Tool

Copernic Desktop Search makes it easy to find any email in any Outlook or Outlook Express folder fast. It lacks true integration with these email clients and does not work with others, though, does not index instant messaging apps and shows no relational knowledge.

"Search" and "fast": in Outlook and Outlook Express, these two do not go together if you have more than a couple of emails. Both Microsoft email clients offer flexible search options and criteria, but they can return results at a dismal, almost dysfunctional pace. Copernic Desktop Search to the rescue!

Next to making web-search-like finding available for all your files, videos, music and what not on your desktop computer, Copernic Desktop Search also indexes emails in Outlook and Outlook Express. The email search options in Copernic Desktop Search could be more flexible and fine-grained, but are generally okay and usable, and Copernic Desktop Search returns results really, really fast.

You can preview messages in their full glory (with little protection for privacy and security it seems, though) or open them in Outlook or Outlook Express. Direct links to forward and reply are also present, but that's about all the integration with email clients you get in Copernic Desktop Search.

Naturally, support for more email programs and instant messaging apps would be nice. And while Copernic Desktop Search is an avid searcher, it lacks a sense of context and relationships. It does not see email threads, does not connect contacts with their emails or files with their author's emails.

Still, the fast index-based search of Copernic Desktop Search is clearly a step in the right direction.