Indexing Thunderbird Messages
June 7th, 2007 by seth bindernagel
I set up a way to index my Thunderbird inbox so Spotlight/Google Desktop can find individual messages using whatever search parameters I put into the search box.
If you’re interested (and use Thunderbird on a Mac), go here: http://www.dennis.ca/weblog/2007/04/17/howto-make-spotlight-and-google-desktop-index-thunderbird-messages/
Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it seems to be working for me. Maybe some others know of a better way. If so, please share.
Seth: I fiddled for quite a long time to get that solution working. The problem isn’t with Thunderbird, but rather in the way Spotlight (and as a result, Google Desktop) indexes items.
If someone comes up with a better solution, I’d also be very interested to hear about it.
Thanks, Dennis. I appreciate your clarification and thanks for making my desktop search comprehensive.
There was a checkin (trunk?) yesterday.
Bug 290057 – Thunderbird should integrate with the Spotlight Search:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290057