I have now have seven email accounts operating from Thunderbird – the excellent, free email client from Mozilla. As you can imagine sometimes recalling what email was from a particular account can become quite tiresome. As good as Thunderbird is as a client, the search facility is ancient and the indexing of Google’s Desktop Search offers exactly what I want (privacy issues aside), instantly . I am not a fan of the sidebar that comes with the Google desktop, it reminds me too much of the Office sidebar they inflicted on us a few years ago, and floating deskbar just gets in the way. While the deskbar is more possibility it is still intrusive, what I really need is an extension to integrate my Google desktop search directly into Thunderbird. There is implementations of this available for Outlook and even Outlook Express but an extension could be done so much better and seamlessly integrate into this great app at the same time. Is there anything out there?
Dear Ben
If you find out something concerning GDS and TB integration please let me know. I would be very thankful!
Regards,
Marc
Will do, I still don’t think there is according to Google’s site.
On another note, watch out for a Thunderbird ‘How To’ series coming up.
I agree with you.
TB is a good mail client but TB search engine is the worse I’ve ever seen.
Even now in 2007 nothing has been changed.
Still we cant find a perfect integartion of TB and GDS…eager to see something like that for TB as we have in Outlook