Well, I'm a freelancer and have many clients so using the smart mailboxes is not viable as the list is too long and it takes longer to navigate to the mailbox than to just type the name and invoke a search. Of course I have smart mailboxes for things that I call upon frequently, but if I want to see wether I contacted a specific client last and the messages then my idea of an action pasting the email address into the search field would really speed things up.
But I guess everyone works differently. Thanks and best Hans On 16.07.2008, at 02:17, SideBar wrote: > > Hans, > > If it is someone that you frequently check you could make a Smart > Folder in Mail. It will automatically keep updated with all > correspondence with a contact. You could even have other filters > automatically in place. > > If you have other information outside of Mail as well, a smart folder > in Finder will search everywhere. > > Mind you, this applies to OS 10.5.x Leopard. > > Not sure, but seems an easier and one click option than using QS. > > Cheers > > On Jul 9, 1:53 pm, Hans Hafner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 09.07.2008, at 15:47, Howard Melman wrote: >> >>> When you get the email address, type . to enter text mode. Then >>> edit out the mailto: at the front and use a Spotlight command to >>> search for that address. When editing the text you can also add >>> "kind:mail" to narrow the search to just email. >> >> But what I'm envisioning is seeing the search results in Mail and >> having the option of stepping through the messages to see their >> content, date sent and everything in one go. >> >> So I think it would be faster to have the option to fill the search >> term into the Mail search field. Perhaps I'm gonna look into an >> Automator action that takes the clip-board, removes the mailto: and >> tells Mail to search... >> >> Thanks and best >> Hans >> -------------------------------------- >> :-: Hans Hafner >> :-: Composer >> :-: >> :-:http://www.hanshafner.de >> :-: >> :-: aim: hanshafner >> :-: skype: hanshafner >> :-: ICQ: 153763727 >> :-: >> :-: Tel.: 030 - 4372 5171 >> :-: Mob.: 0175 - 407 45 16 >> :-: Fax.: 030 - 4372 5171 >> :-: >> :-: Guerickestr. 31 >> :-: 10587 Berlin -------------------------------------- :-: Hans Hafner :-: Composer :-: :-: http://www.hanshafner.de :-: :-: aim: hanshafner :-: skype: hanshafner :-: ICQ: 153763727 :-: :-: Tel.: 030 - 4372 5171 :-: Mob.: 0175 - 407 45 16 :-: Fax.: 030 - 4372 5171 :-: :-: Guerickestr. 31 :-: 10587 Berlin
