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I tried Xobni (post yahoo acquiring) in a 'corporate setup' and found it to be a memory hog, The startup time is ridiculous with increasing mailbox size. I am b

I tried Xobni (post yahoo acquiring) in a 'corporate setup' and found it to be a memory hog, The startup time is ridiculous with increasing mailbox size. I am better off searching outlook based on filters than using Xobni. And now adding more gadgets to outlook will just make it an obese guy in designer clothes. I wonder who uses Xobni? Any genuine Xobni users here?

jamesbkel 16y ago
Really? I haven't noticed it to be a resource hog and I find the search to be worlds better than Outlook, which some how manages to miss the obvious yet find the obscure every time I search. My mailbox is a pretty good size, but perhaps I haven't reached that threshold yet.
- nhebb 16y ago
  Outlook, which some how manages to miss the obvious I've noticed a quirk in Outlook 2007 that if I add an extra character to the search then hit backspace, it will find items it didn't find before.
adamsmith 16y ago
If you tried it right after we added Yahoo Mail support, that must have been 2008. We made a ton of performance improvements in early 2009. I talked about that process, and the fun of developing in Outlook, here: http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2009/04/investing-a-million-bucks-into-performance-and-stability.html http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2009/04/investing-a-million-bucks-i... folks on Outlook 2007 will also find a huge OL performance boost from upgrading to SP2, wherein the fixed about thirty Outlook perf bugs, some of which can be tickled by their addin API's!
RichardPrice 16y ago
I use Xobni a lot. The two things I find it very valuable for are: - seeing the Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter profiles of people who email me. Adding some social context to the emails that come into my inbox is really great. - easily finding someone's phone number. Xobni automatically extracts people's phone numbers from the emails in your inbox, so I often find that if I want to get someone's number, I'll search for their name in the Xobni pane in Outlook, and the person's number will be right there. I haven't found any performance issues at all. Outlook for me is just as fast as it is without Xobni.

jamesbkel 16y ago

Really? I haven't noticed it to be a resource hog and I find the search to be worlds better than Outlook, which some how manages to miss the obvious yet find the obscure every time I search. My mailbox is a pretty good size, but perhaps I haven't reached that threshold yet.

nhebb 16y ago
Outlook, which some how manages to miss the obvious I've noticed a quirk in Outlook 2007 that if I add an extra character to the search then hit backspace, it will find items it didn't find before.

adamsmith 16y ago

If you tried it right after we added Yahoo Mail support, that must have been 2008. We made a ton of performance improvements in early 2009. I talked about that process, and the fun of developing in Outlook, here: http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2009/04/investing-a-million-bucks-into-performance-and-stability.html http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2009/04/investing-a-million-bucks-i... folks on Outlook 2007 will also find a huge OL performance boost from upgrading to SP2, wherein the fixed about thirty Outlook perf bugs, some of which can be tickled by their addin API's!

RichardPrice 16y ago

I use Xobni a lot. The two things I find it very valuable for are: - seeing the Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter profiles of people who email me. Adding some social context to the emails that come into my inbox is really great. - easily finding someone's phone number. Xobni automatically extracts people's phone numbers from the emails in your inbox, so I often find that if I want to get someone's number, I'll search for their name in the Xobni pane in Outlook, and the person's number will be right there. I haven't found any performance issues at all. Outlook for me is just as fast as it is without Xobni.