> It would search Thunderbird emails too with a plugin, was instantaneous, and for a little while was a huge productivity boon For the local filesystems full-t

> It would search Thunderbird emails too with a plugin, was instantaneous, and for a little while was a huge productivity boon For the local filesystems full-text almost instantaneous search, definitely check Recoll: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/index.html http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/index.html Recoll will index an MS-Word document stored as an attachment to an e-mail message inside a Thunderbird folder archived in a Zip file (and more...). It will also help you search for it with a friendly and powerful interface, and let you open a copy of a PDF at the right page with two clicks. There is little that will remain hidden on your disk.