Hi everyone. This is something I didn't know before, and thought some
of you might find it useful. It comes from the rss feed of the
unofficial apple web log, which I would recommend everyone subscribe to.
Darcy
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Date: December 8, 2007 2:30:00 PM GMT-05:00
Subject: TUAW Tip: Power searching in Leopard Mail
Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Author: Mat Lu
Filed under: Productivity, TUAW Tips, Leopard
Over at Mac OS X Hints, johnga1t has discovered that Leopard's
Mail.app has a more powerful search functionality than is apparent
on the surface. Basically, it seems that Mail.app's search box can
leverage some of the power of the new, more sophisticated Spotlight
syntax, which means you can now uses fields to limit your searches.
The syntax is: keyword from:some_user subject:some_word
So for example you can search for all the emails from me
withfrom:Mat Lu in the search box. And these can be combined. To
find all the emails from me with 'philosophy' in the subject line it
would be:from:Mat Lu subject:philosophy and so on. One thing I've
noticed is that you do need to make sure it searches the "Entire
Message."
Apparently the available fields are: from, subject, and email (which
searches the email address rather than the name). As one of the
commenters at Mac OS X Hints notes, you actually have more options
when searching directly from Spotlight (e.g. Boolean operators), but
nonetheless, I think this is handy time saving trick.
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