IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search

December 27, 2008

in December 2008, the bright eyed engineers at IBM rolled out a new version of the IBM OmniFind Personal E-Mail Search tool. IBM offers plug ins for Microsoft Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes mail systems. You can read about the basic system here. For the tough minded, you can download the system here. If you are running Vista, you will need to fiddle with the Universal Access Control. Once you have crippled that puppy, you can install the system on a 32 bit Vista system. The search only accesses files produced from Lotus Notes Version 6.x or above and Outlook Version 2003 and above. The cute gotcha is that you have to decide whether you want to search Outlook or Lotus Notes. You can’t search both at the same time. IBM’s engineers presumably are rushing to catch up with the notion of federating search results. Another neat limitation is that the software only runs on Windows. Enjoy.

Stephen Arnold, December 27, 2008

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