Indexer indexing emails without outlook client and WMS

spregula

We are using Worksite Indexer 8.2SP1 and according to the Imanage engineers we need an outlook client or WMS (windows messaging service) to index email messages (.MSG). We uninstalled the outlook client and the indexer is perfectly indexing the MSG files without either outlook client or WMS service.
Does anyone have run into similar situation ?

The indexer is installed on a Windows 2003 server and Microsoft strongly recommends not installing Outlook 2003 on the server. Where as the WMS service is not supported on the Windows 2003 server.

Since we have sucessfull indexing of MSG files without these two components can we use this scenario. But without a concrete answer why the indexer is working we are having hard time to justify this scenario for production. There engineers have no valid answers what is making this possible. Can any worksite developers point out what may be contributing to this situation.

Migrateduser

Microsoft doesn't recommend a combo of Outlook/Exchange on a server because of conflicting DLL's.