it was change don purpose, because message-contains is often too slow (especially over imap).
Jeff On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 13:51, Scott Otterson wrote: > Having just updated to evolution 1.4.5, I see that the mail search type > default has changed from "message contains" to "subject contains." > > Is there any way I can change it back? Gconf or something? > > One of the best evolution features was the ease of message searching. I > have come to realize that this was simply because the default search > looked through all the message text. With "Message contains" I can > almost always find the email I'm looking for on the first try. I just > type in word I know was in the email, say, a person's name, or > "deadline" when I am looking for a certain date. > > It's not like that with the new "subject contains" default. Not only > does the subject almost never contain a person's name, but it also > almost never contains the subject. People seldom bother with a good > message title, and even if they did, the true subject of a thread > changes as messages get forwarded back and forth, and as the topic > morphs. > > So, "message contains" is the search type that locates emails with the > fewest tries. With 1.4.5 as it is, I have an extra click to get to it > -- a minor annoyance but one that I hope is easily fixed. > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
