It just occurred to me to keep the Smart Mailbox and name it "Advanced search..." Now I have an an advanced search in my Mail sidebar. To edit just double-click the mailbox icon and enter new criteria. As a bonus, my last search is always saved.
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I often find that I need more than Mail's basic search. For example when I want to find an email from "Fred" with "Foo" in the title that has an attachment, etc. My usual method has been to create a Smart Mailbox, find the email I was looking for, then delete the Smart Mailbox.
It just occurred to me to keep the Smart Mailbox and name it "Advanced search..." Now I have an an advanced search in my Mail sidebar. To edit just double-click the mailbox icon and enter new criteria. As a bonus, my last search is always saved.
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A form of 'Advanced search' for Mail.app
Good idea, but I wish Mail.apps advanced searches really were advanced.
A form of 'Advanced search' for Mail.app
They should follow Google. Let me type things like:
A form of 'Advanced search' for Mail.app
You can actually use a format very similar to that, you just have to use Spotlight instead. See my comment below.
Many Ways to Search a Cat
Leopard brought us a much (!) improved version of Spotlight which can be used to create very complex searches. Try typing in Spotlight, for example: from:john subject:"Next Meeting"
This hint links to a full list of operators you can use in this manner. For some reason this does not yet extend to Mail's in-app search function. I hope this is an oversight that will be soon fixed.
Many Ways to Search a Cat
I'm finding Mail 3.1 (Leopard 10.5.1) to appropriately respond to this type of search. So it looks like the new Spotlight features are implemented in Mail.
Many Ways to Search a Cat
No, it's not a full implementation, and not even as powerful as the smart mailbox editor. What you used there acts as an AND search only (at least the editor offers either AND or OR), and you can't use boolean operators (AND, OR etc) as you can in Spotlight.
Many Ways to Search a Cat
It doesn't work for Mail properly though, as far as I can tell. Try "from:john OR from: Bill". It won't find all messages from John and all messages from Bill (as opposed to all messages from John and Bill, which would be an AND search), and nothing else.
A form of 'Advanced search' for Mail.app
This is something I've missed DEARLY since finally switching away from Eudora a year or so ago. Eudora had a very robust Boolean search engine and I used it frequently. Now I am forced to be less precise in my searches and manually skim the results to try and find what I'm looking for. |
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