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From: Steven Fisher on 4 Jan 2010 12:30 In article <050120100501484385%HP(a)snotmail.com>, High Priest <HP(a)snotmail.com> wrote: > In it, I can clearly see a search facility � a simple field and no way > to tell Mail _where_ to look. It seems to assume that the user will > have all of his mail in the In Box and the search will be conducted It sounds like you haven't even tried Mail yet. Steve
From: BreadWithSpam on 4 Jan 2010 14:43 High Priest <HP(a)snotmail.com> writes: > In it, I can clearly see a search facility � a simple field and no way > to tell Mail _where_ to look. It seems to assume that the user will > have all of his mail in the In Box and the search will be conducted > only there. Not at all. If you are looking at a particular mailbox, the search will offer you the option of the mailbox you are in, or all mailboxes. And it lets you choose "entire message" or the From, To or Subject fields. And it's actually quite surprisingly fast. > Eudora also lets me search by date, label, size, age, personality, to, > from, subject, priority...all in multiple fields of and/or. honestly, > if you've ever used Eudora, you wouldn't need to ask me why. I don't think it's got that kind of flexibility, but note that all your mail is stored in such a way that the system Spotlight will have indexed it all. You may find that one of the third-party interfaces for Spotlight can help out, such as NotLight or EasyFind. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting
From: BreadWithSpam on 4 Jan 2010 14:47 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> writes: > In the advanced mode, you can also choose from 20 additional criteria, as > many of them as you wish. What advanced mode? Do you mean through the use of a "Smart Mailbox"? That seems like the only way to restrict on fields other than Subject, From, or To. Of course, I may have missed something. (Just looked on Mail 3.6 here on my 10.5 machine. Things may be a little different on different versions). -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting
From: Jochem Huhmann on 4 Jan 2010 14:57 BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net writes: > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> writes: > >> In the advanced mode, you can also choose from 20 additional criteria, as >> many of them as you wish. > > What advanced mode? Do you mean through the use of a "Smart Mailbox"? > > That seems like the only way to restrict on fields other > than Subject, From, or To. A smart mailbox is the very same thing as a search, just with more criteria and with the ability to name and safe that search (although you can also do that from a "normal" search). Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: BreadWithSpam on 4 Jan 2010 17:55
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> writes: > In article <yob3a2lfy9c.fsf(a)panix1.panix.com>, BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net > wrote: > > > > In the advanced mode, you can also choose from 20 additional criteria, > > > as many of them as you wish. > > > > What advanced mode? Do you mean through the use of a "Smart Mailbox"? > > creates a smart mailbox. So you do mean a "smart mailbox". Fair enough. I probably ought to use it more than I do, though the simple search is surprisingly adequate for me. Nevertheless, it's not "advanced mode" and calling it a "smart mailbox" rather than just "search" or "search+" is a little silly. Hopefully, this will help the OP. Seems at least as silly that he wanted to dismiss Mail without even looking. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting |