Searching IMAP messages with Outlook 2007 on Vista

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Jeff Alperin

I'm switching from PoP to IMAP access to my email for the automatic
"syncing" of mail no matter what client I use, but most of my access
is from Outlook 2007 on my desktop. Instead of developing an
elaborate filing system, I'd like to rely on the much-improved
searching functionality in OL 2007, but it seems that the search will
only find text when the message body (not just the header) has been
downloaded to the .pst file by OL 2007. Is that correct?

I've tried to set OL 2007 to automatically download the entire message
body by doing the following:
Tools->Send/Receive Settings->Define Send/Receive Groups->Edit and
then checking the Receive Mail Items box with the Dowload complete
items including attachments for subscribed folders option. The
problem is that Send/Receive doesn't seem to be doing anything, and
the email bodies are not being downloaded unless I preview them
individually in Outlook. (I have Send/Receive setup to also check
another PoP server, and the Send/Receive Progress dialog only seems to
show the PoP server being checked.) Suggestions?

A smaller issue is that I'd like to move the location of the IMAP .pst
file. How can I do that?

Thanks!
 
Jeff Alperin said:
I'm switching from PoP to IMAP access to my email for the automatic
"syncing" of mail no matter what client I use, but most of my access
is from Outlook 2007 on my desktop. Instead of developing an
elaborate filing system, I'd like to rely on the much-improved
searching functionality in OL 2007, but it seems that the search will
only find text when the message body (not just the header) has been
downloaded to the .pst file by OL 2007. Is that correct?
Click to expand...

Not here - the Outlook 2007 search facility does search in IMAP folders as
well as the pst folders...
 
Not here - the Outlook 2007 search facility does search in IMAP folders as
well as the pst folders...
Click to expand...

Hmm. It's definely NOT searching the message bodies of IMAP folders
for me, unless I've downloaded them. Is there some setting I'm
missing? Here's how I checked. I display the Header Status or
Offline Status column in the folder view so I can tell whether the
body has been downloaded. Then I read the message in a webmail client
(so I can find body text to search on). Then I return to Outlook and
search on the body text. It doesn't find the message. Then I preview
the message and watch the Header/Offline statuses change. Then I run
the same search again and voila- this time the message is found.

I guess it's ok if the message body must be downloaded so long as I
can do that automatically, but I can't figure out how to make that
work. (See my original post.)
 
Hmm. It's definely NOT searching the message bodies of IMAP folders
for me, unless I've downloaded them.
Click to expand...

Well it won't, will it? Outlook search only searches within OUTLOOK, not on
some remote server...
 
To fix the problem with Send/Receive not working for the IMAP account,
I deleted the account in Outlook, then recreated it.
 
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