Windows Search integration and wdseml MIME filter
Mauro Molinari
I have a problem with Thunderbird. I have it installed on my system at
home and on my system at office. The two systems are the following:
- home: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, 32-bit
- office: Windows 7 Professional Edition, 64-bit
In both cases I'm using Thunderbird 3.1.7 and the option to let Windows
Search to find messages enabled. However, I'm seeing different results.
On the system at work, when I search for an e-mail from the Windows
Start menu, I always find Thunderbird results marked as "File" and
showing me the subject of the matching e-mails (for instance: if I
search for "My e-mail for you" I find a Thunderbird "File" with "My
e-mail for you" in the subject)
On the system at home, however, sometimes Thunderbird results are not
found; anyway, the main problem is that when they are found, they are
marked as "Communications" (not "File"), and this is better... however
instead of seeing the messages subjects, I see the wdseml file names,
which are really unreadable (something like
1077690495.35941.1287136300562.JavaMail.tomcat%40jira02.app.mwc.hst.phx2.redhat.com.wdseml
or such...).
Looking at the Windows indexing service options, this is the difference
I notice:
- on the system at work, in the Advanced options, File Types, I have an
eml extension described as "File Properties Filter" with "Index only
file properties" selected, but also a wdseml extension described as
"MIME Filter" with "Index file properties and contents" selected
- on the system at home I just have an eml extension with "Index only
file properties" selected, but I have no wdseml entries
I'm pretty sure the problem is here: on the system at home I don't have
any MIME filter installed for the wdseml file type, that's why I'm not
seing wdseml search matches with a readable description (i.e.: the
e-mails subject).
Since I would expect the Windows Vista search and indexing
infrastructure be the same as that in Windows 7, I would expect TB
integration and behaviour be the same, so I suspect I have some kind of
corruption in the registration of the integration of TB with Windows
Search in my system at home. Is there a way to fix it?
Thanks in advance,
Mauro.