Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Gentle listers,
>Some time ago, someone on the list named Outlook, the email client from
>MS, as Lookout.  If I remember correctly, someone sprayed coffee on a
>large monitor when he read the original post.  I found it amusing also,
>being a long-time user of Outlook.  My PST was started back in 1997 and
>has migrated across several laptops since then.  (In fact, it started
>life on a Compaq Contura 410CX onboard a 330MB disk drive.  The current
>PST is almost 600MB right now.)
>
>I have just installed a product called LookOut for Outlook
2000/XP/2003.
>Outlook Express users need not be concerned with this software.
>
>LookOut is an indexer and retriever of data in the PST.  After first
>indexing my PST, which took an hour, I am now able to do powerful
>searches of my PST with instantaneous results.  If anyone ever does
>searches of their PST for documents, message, calendar items and
>whatnots, you would be well advised to look at this software.
>
>You can download it from www.lookoutsoft.com.  You will notice that the
>download link will take you to the MS website.  That is correct,
Lookout
>Software has been acquired by MS.
>
>And finally, you can't beat the price:  free.
>
> Denys

My .pst's oldest e-mail is from 11-17-97. Be very careful at your 600Mb
file size as a friend who is a Linux guru (on kernal development team
for Gentoo.org Linux) had major problems with his .pst when it reached
600Mb. Possibly MS has fixed the root cause of those problems but to
avoid any I archive project related mail from -IN and -OUT folders as
the projects close to keep the .pst size < 100Mb. Just wanting to err
on the size of caution....

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