Am Donnerstag, den 13.06.2013, 01:25 +0400 schrieb Emre Erenoglu: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Bart > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder about your answer. The search function, as it was described by > > Reid Thompson, seems very flexible. You can use just one condition, or > > add as many as you may need. If you think you may need to use the same > > search criteria again, you can name and save it. If not, just use it > > the one time and discard it when it is finished. > > > > Although I think I understand your situation, I guess I don't quite > > understand your problem. Could you elaborate? > > My problem is in fact simple. The search function in Evolution in > itself is very good. But it is very slow to use and requires too many > mouse clicks and keyboard entries, hopping between fields & choosing > criteria & phrase. When you have to use it too many times, it is a > burden on time. Saving each search is also not an option as there are > too many possible combinations of searches I do daily. > > If I could put that whole search criteria into the search/filter bar > on top of the message list, and see the result in the message list, it > would solve my problem. > using keyboard and putting your criteria is much faster: > from:emre to:bart subject:search withattachment:yes or even shorter: > f:emre t:bart s:search wa:yes > and you'll see all mail from me to you with subject containing > "search" and which contains attachments. > > Gmail uses the same mechanism as well as the GmailUI/Expressionsearch > add-on of Thunderbird. > > This may also help to explain myself better: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/gmailui/ > > -- > Emre > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Why don't you use filters to filter your many emails in your huge INBOX, assigning tags (labels) to them, moving them into different folders and so on. You find that under Edit->message Filters in the main menu. -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
