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>
