http://simile.mit.edu/seek/

via lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/367567/search-and-sort-email-more-efficiently-with-seek

Quote :

"Thunderbird only: Thunderbird extension Seek adds advanced search and sort functionality to the open source email client, Thunderbird, through a feature called faceted browsing. As you can see in the screencast above, faceted browsing narrows down emails by a number of conditions, introducing tons of useful ways to slice and dice your inbox to find exactly what you want. Add to that the timeline feature, which looks like a blast along with being useful, and we've got a pretty worthwhile Thunderbird extension here. If you give it a go, let's hear what you think in the comments."

watch that screencast - it looks like it's amazing.

3/13/2008 9:41:09 PM

eh. i seriously doubt the realworld usefulness of this.

Those filters work for ecommerce because of defined and recognized restrictions in the data. Email filtering like this is going to require a ton of fuzzy logic and interpretation, not to mention the filter set is either going to need its own heuristics, or its going to be huge to be of any use.

3/13/2008 10:35:17 PM

meh you're right. i just installed it to try it out - you have to build the index for each folder every time you enter it

then while you've locked that folder using seek, you can't even delete a message without "disengaging" seek for that folder which is retarded

3/14/2008 2:00:24 AM