On 15 Nov 2013, at 22:01 , Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:46 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 15 Nov 2013, at 19:45 , Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Are people satisfied not being able to search on a string of terms or limit >>> their search to subject? or from? etc? >> >> Yep. The search is so fast that it hardly matters, and better matches seem >> to appear first. > > But they don't. > A friend of mine needed to search for a specific string of text that he knew > he'd written as a subject. > The search came back with hundreds of emails. Any email with one or more of > the words in the string was returned regardless of where the word existed in > the email: > Subject, To, From, BCC, Message body... > > Turns out, the string he needed to search was about 5 words and contained > "Cornell"l. He not only got all messages with the term "Cornell" in the > message body or subject heading, it returned any email with an address > containing "Cornell”.
See, I would consider that to be “better matches appearing first.” > Results were completely wrong. > > I've tried the same thing. I get FAST results, for sure, but they are not > what I want. > Try searching for a specific string of terms. You get emails that contain > the individual words - and they don't appear to be ranked by the complete > string, followed by emails with the partial string. A search for foo bar sin tap moo does search for foo OR bar OR sin OR tap OR moo. Searching 101: If a query term generates too many results, then it’s not useful as a query. I agree that it is a sham there is no way to search for a phrase (evidently) in iOS 7 mail. I’ve tried grouping with “” and () but neither of those seems to work. > I know it's not a problem for you, but it is a show stopper for many. It means reconsidering what you are searching for. I’m sure Apple’s (unsaid) stance is that for real searching, use OS X and that the search in iOS is designed to be fast. > I agree, the results come back very fast with iOS 7, I love that. > But if the results are wrong, I’ve seen no evidence they are wrong. > or hardly meaningful, then you end up spending an inordinate amount of time > reading all the headers to find the email you thought Mail would find for you. The solution to me is to search on something else. If I get thousands of emails from cornell and putting cornell in my query returns all this emails, then I don’t put cornell in my search query. Either that, or hope Apple lets you search for a phrase in iOS 7.1. I think my first suggestion is more likely to generate useful results though. -- My advice: Live a life worth dying for. _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
