I recently migrated to Apple's Mail program but found it's built-in search feature to be about as useful as a 3-day hangover. Basically, I kept trying to use it as I use Gooogle, placing phrases in quotes, separating inclusive AND key words with a comma or plus. But Mail, in it's eagerness to please ignored these logic queues.
However, I have found what I think is a good solution to this problem (aside from moving back to Entourage) in the form of a small Java jar called ZoE. This free tool is at once a mail client, mail server, mail filter, and mail search engine. Just import your existing mailbox, sign up for a Google's Web APIs, and let Zoe Google-ize your mail repository. It is, in a word, slick.
What I also found extremely useful about this tool is it's cataloguing technique that sets up an index of email "contributors" and attachments that follow your search queries. For more tricks with ZoE, check out Jon Udell's nice Web Services column entitled Googling your Email.
Posted by Brad Shimmin at 10:56:36 PM
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