The Bottom Line
- X1 lets you search mail in Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express and Netscape fast
- In addition to email text, X1 searches attachments and files with support for many file types
- X1 lets you specify the folders to include and can look in multiple PST files simultaneously
- X1 does not index incoming and outgoing emails in real time
- Results from the various search types are not merged and the relevancy of results could be improved
- X1's message preview could be more privacy- and security-conscious
Description
- X1 lets you search for emails, attachments, contacts and files fast.
- You can look for emails kept in Outlook, Eudora, Netscape and Outlook Express.
- X1 supports text as well as Office documents, PDF files and can search in compressed files.
- You can search globally or look for certain fields (sender, subject, email folder, flags,...).
- Offering its own preview, X1 also integrates well with supported email clients.
- You can tell X1 which email folders to index, and how often.
- X1 supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - X1 04.09 - Email Search Tool
X1 returns results as you type, and not only can you search the text of messages but also attachments and their content with support for text and Office documents, PDF files. X1 even searches inside zipped attachments, and you can pinpoint your search by looking for specify senders, subjects, dates or the folder the message is in.
While you can sort the results flexibly, priority sorting would be nice, and X1 probably should not fragment results. Usually, I don't care whether something I am looking for is in an email itself or in an attachment. If you search for certain terms frequently (or have constructed a particularly clever but complex search that gets you what you want while filtering out the rest), you can save the search for one click re-use in X1.
X1 supports a number of email clients and integrates pretty well with them, allowing you start a reply directly from its own message preview, for example. This integration could be taken a step further, though, providing real-time indexing instead of periodic indexing every 15 minutes.
