Good tool for searching E-Mail in Outlook? [closed]

As a System Administrator, I tend to accumulate a lot of E-Mail. And, unfortunately, my current employer requires Windows on the desktop and Outlook for e-mail.

My question is, are there any good tools for indexing/searching Outlook E-Mail? Ideally, I'd like a lightweight Outlook specific tool.

Google Desktop is bigger and more heavyweight than I'd like, and I've had so many issues with Windows Search 4.0 that I'm not currently willing to have it installed on any machine I have to use.

Solution 1:

Lookout is freeware and lightweight.

Solution 2:

I use xobni with my desktop Outlook and really like it.

I believe Outlook needs to be in cached mode

Solution 3:

I'm partial to Google Desktop. I love the ability to be able to hit CTRL twice quickly and start a search immediately. I only use the search functionality of Google Desktop and it seems to work very well (I turned the sidebar and gadgets off in the options). After it's finished indexing everything, I don't even notice it running.