What is the feed for this blog, it sounds like it might be handy. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darcy Burnard Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 3:13 PM To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind Subject: Fwd: TUAW Tip: Power searching in Leopard Mail
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 Begin forwarded message: > 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. > > [via Hawk WIngs]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments > > > > Read more. >
