How to use Search in sandboxed Outlook?

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SamDi
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How to use Search in sandboxed Outlook?

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Hi!

When running Outlook 2016 in a Standard Isolation Sandbox Search (for messages with content X) does find all mails it indexed when Oulook last time ran unsandboxed but no mails received since then.
How do I configure the sandbox so new mails are searchable/searched as well?


Thank you!


I'm using Sandboxie-Plus 1.9.6 x64 on Win10x64 21H2, ini secion:

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Enabled=y
BlockNetworkFiles=y
RecoverFolder=%Desktop%
RecoverFolder=%Personal%
RecoverFolder=%{[snipped]}%
RecoverFolder=D:\
BorderColor=#02f6f6,on,3
Template=AutoRecoverIgnore
Template=LingerPrograms
Template=BlockPorts
Template=qWave
Template=FileCopy
Template=SkipHook
Template=OpenBluetooth
Template=Office_Outlook
Template=BlockTelemetry
ConfigLevel=10
AutoRecover=y
OpenFilePath=OUTLOOK.EXE,C:\Users\[snipped]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\[snipped]@[snipped].com.ost
OpenFilePath=OUTLOOK.EXE,C:\Users\[snipped]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\[snipped]@[snipped].net.ost
OpenFilePath=OUTLOOK.EXE,C:\Users\[snipped]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\archive.pst
OpenFilePath=OUTLOOK.EXE,C:\Users\[snipped]\Documents\Outlook Files\archive.pst
OpenFilePath=OUTLOOK.EXE,D:\
OpenFilePath=D:\
BoxNameTitle=n
CopyLimitKb=81920
AllowNetworkAccess=<BlockNetAccess>,n
DropAdminRights=y
AutoDelete=y
ClosedFilePath=<BlockNetDevices>,InternetAccessDevices
SandboxieLogon=y
ForceProcess=Presentations.exe
ForceProcess=excelcnv.exe
ForceProcess=MSACCESS.EXE
ForceProcess=MSPUB.EXE
ForceProcess=OUTLOOK.EXE
ForceProcess=POWERPNT.EXE
ForceProcess=MailClient.exe
ForceProcessDisabled=EXCEL.EXE
ForceProcessDisabled=WINWORD.EXE

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Re: How to use Search in sandboxed Outlook?

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Could you resolve this by now? I am sorry, I can't seem to help you. Maybe that should be moved to Github, since there are more people that can look into it, if that is still not working for you.

SamDi
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Re: How to use Search in sandboxed Outlook?

Post by SamDi »

Nope.
I'm running Outlook unsandboxed if i have to search.

A PITA but there's simply no support from the vendor.
Hopefully I find another, better supported, alternative.

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Re: How to use Search in sandboxed Outlook?

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@DavidXanatos, can you provide support on why searching in a sandboxed Outlook fails?

All my guesses had been that it works, if Outlook can run.

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