So far, users of Microsoft's Windows Vista search engine and Windows Search product (for older versions of Windows) have had to use a Microsoft email client or an out-of-date closed source third party tool (which works only with old versions of Windows Search, and does not work at all with Windows Vista) [1] to enable their emails to be indexed.

The aim of this project is to develop an open source plugin to allow these search engines to index Thunderbird emails.


[1] http://www.citeknet.com/Products/ProtocolHandlers/WDSThunderbirdMozillaEudoraMailAddin/tabid/70/Default.aspx