Are people satisfied not being able to search on a string of terms or limit their search to subject? or from? etc? -K
On Nov 14, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > It may not be true for many users, but for many other users, searching in > Mail for iOS 7 has taken a turn for the bad. > > This is a real problem: > > • Enter the desired search term or terms. > • iOS Mail will search for the terms in both the emails' header > areas and bodies. > • Terms can appear as a phrase but also individually or as > parts of words. > • iOS Mail will return all messages that include all terms. > > So if you are searching for a precise string of text, results will include > emails containing ANY of the individual terms in the string. If you want to > restrict your search to the subject line, you can't. Mail is searching > Subject/To/Cc/From fields and message body for EACH term in a string. > Results CAN be, and often are, less than useful. Sure, it makes it easy to > just tap search, enter terms, and go. But if the results are meaningless... > > I was searching online to see is there were a way to restrict a search to a > string of terms. I had tried encapsulating the terms in quotes, but that > didn't work. Is there a way to specify a search string of terms? to limit > the search to any of the following: Subject/To/Cc/From fields, message body ? > > > I found this article: > > ------ > http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/17/ios-7-mail-app-uses-multi-folder-body-searches-by-default/ > > > • Rather than searching the current folder, by default, it searches all > folders. To do that, it opens many IMAP connections at once for searching > each folder concurrently. We’re not sure on the upper bound on the number of > connections it will make, but saw at least 10 in one case. > > • Rather than searching the Subject/To/Cc/From fields, by default, it > searches all those fields as well as the message body. > Both of these changes are actually great for the user experience, but they > create potentially large headaches for IMAP server maintainers. > ------ > > Some of use can't or will not use GMAIL. Is there an alternative email > client for iOS 7 that allows for searching where one can specific a search > string and specify Subject/To/Cc/From fields, message body, mbox etc? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > iPhone-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
