I don’t like delet­ing emails and, accord­ingly, don’t. Win­dows Live Search may not agree with me. This is alter­nately because Office/Outlook 2007 sucks, or it does. I’m presently rebuild­ing its index of my email because it some­how man­ages to con­tinue bliss­fully unaware of thou­sands of mes­sages in email fold­ers. This is what hap­pens when your email pro­gram man­dates depen­dence on an exter­nal search prod­uct. Gen­er­ally speak­ing, I’m not too desparate when it comes to look­ing for other files on my sys­tem (though, I’ve got to con­fess at this point, I am increas­ingly so after adopt­ing WLS) — email search is the crit­i­cal fea­ture for me.

I am at the point where if this con­tin­ues to prove inef­fec­tive I will be aban­don­ing either WLS, Out­look, or both.

But for now I’m wait­ing for a rebuild and using Kerio’s excel­lent web­mail prod­uct to con­duct searches near-instantaneously and vastly more com­pre­hen­sively than Microsoft’s obvi­ously defi­cient search does.