Hi Paul, I got the following to work, but VoiceOver went silent on me, and I had to toggle it off and on. I'm only just getting used to Mail in Lion.
1. Press Command-Option-F to go the search bar in the Mail Message viewer. 2. Type in the name of the person who has sent you mail, e.g. I typed "Paul Hopewell". 3. VO-Down arrow. VoiceOver may become sluggish here, depending on the size and contents of your mailbox. VoiceOver should say, first, "People", then "Paul Hopewell" and your email address. 4. Navigate to the messages table. The "From:" column should be populated with the name you typed in. As I said, VoiceOver stopped talking once for me when I did this. I had to toggle it off and on. When I went back to the search field (with Command-Option-F), it announced, "From Paul Hopewell menu button". HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > Hello, > I need to retrieve an Apple Mail item from a specific person. I know this > item is somewhere in Apple Mail in my time machine backups. Is there any way > I can quickly find it perhaps by spotlight or mail search? > Many thanks. > > Paul Hopewell <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
