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A form of 'Advanced search' for Mail.app
Authored by: Mac Berry on Nov 29, '07 08:50:08AM

Good idea, but I wish Mail.apps advanced searches really were advanced.

For example, I can't do a search such as "From XYZ" or "from wxy", and "not in the pqr folder". I can only do "any" or "all" searches, making smart folders very limited and a long way from their true potential.

Same applies to rules.

Mark




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A form of 'Advanced search' for Mail.app
Authored by: JonMountjoy on Nov 29, '07 01:47:27PM

They should follow Google. Let me type things like:

is:unread in:inbox from:jon "Mail's search could be improved"

You have to wonder why they don't. I'm sure they have the search infrastructure to do advanced search, which would dramatically improve the usefulness of Mail. For now, I must admit I am very happy with the vastly increased speed of search in Leopard (it's now quicker than logging into gmail and searching there, which is what I used to do).



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A form of 'Advanced search' for Mail.app
Authored by: shmuel on Nov 29, '07 03:33:57PM

You can actually use a format very similar to that, you just have to use Spotlight instead. See my comment below.



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