Re: Email
Steven Fisher
High Priest <H...@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
BreadW...@fractious.net
> In it, I can clearly see a search facility О©╫ 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.
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BreadW...@fractious.net
> 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).
Jochem Huhmann
> Michelle Steiner <mich...@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
BreadW...@fractious.net
> In article <yob3a2l...@panix1.panix.com>, BreadW...@fractious.net
>
> > > 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"?
>
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.
John Varela
wrote:
> In article <sdfisher-30D45C...@mara100-84.onlink.net>,
> That's true, Steve. I haven't tried it.
>
> Are you suggesting that there might be a pleasant surprise if I invest
> the time? I was tending to rely on Apple's video intro to it. I'd
> prefer not to move over then discover it was a mistake, hence my
> original post.
If you have Mail leave messages on the POP server and copy yourself
on outgoing, you can test Mail while leaving the possibility (with
some effort) of returning to and updating your Eudora base.
--
John Varela
Trade NEWlamps for OLDlamps for email
Paul Sture
"John Varela" <OLDl...@verizon.net> wrote:
This works very smoothly in practice. I did it when migrating from one
system disk to another - effectively it didn't matter which system disk
I was booted into, my mail was always up to date (even if it meant
downloading it twice, i.e. once for each system).
Just make sure that your POP server keeps read messages for a decent
amount of time (e.g. a week).
--
Paul Sture