I have never found anything satisfactory in MAIL either, when trying to keep mail according to its contents rather than dates or persons. I made so many attempts to organize, but have failed in every aspect. Now I am trying it with Gmail, I just forward anything I want to keep to it and then press " archive" And then I can search by keywords ? la google. At least I hope so. I have just started that lately, so I am still a novice. Do you think when Tiger comes along it will also have a google type mail search? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: K?tzchen2.JPG Type: image/jpg Size: 3405 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20041219/3e927462/attachment.jpg -------------- next part -------------- Marta On Dec 19, 2004, at 14:18, Bill Rising wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2004, at 14:11, Dan Crutcher wrote: > >> Keeping "stacks of old email inside an Archive folder in Mail" is >> exactly what I do, but I keep my mail on only one machine so I don't >> have to worry about compressing/decompressing it. >> >> Inside my Archived folder I keep my old mail in subfolders named by >> month/year, Jan04, Feb04, etc. I generally delete it if it's more >> than a year old. My problem is that Mail won't search in subfolders >> (or I haven't figured out how to make it do that), so if I highlight >> "Archived" and enter a word in the search box, it doesn't find >> anything. I have to highlight each month's subfolder and search it >> individually, which is a bit of a pain. >> >> Does anyone know if Mail has a preference or setting that will tell >> it to search folders within folders? > > I think it'll only search everything or one folder w/o nesting. This > is one of the things I dislike intensely about Mail. Tiger should get > around this... [this sounds like standard Micro$oft vaporware talk...] > >> >> I suppose I could just put all my old mail loose in the Archived >> folder, but that somehow offends my sense of organizational ethics. >> > > Exactly. > > Bill > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
