On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:12:50 +0100 (CET) Harald Gutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HG> When searching mail (with Menu: Message/Search) M selects all matching
HG> mails. But what can I do with this selection?
Not much :-(
HG> Generally, I would at first like to jump to each matching mail.
HG> The best way would be to narrow the view to these matching mails.
Yes, I'd like to have something like this. Idealy we'd have support for
the virtual folders:
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=138
then we could simply have one called "Search results" and open it after
search.
HG> Selecting them is nice to work with them, such as moving them to another
HG> folder. But for jumping I would have to flag these selected mails and "jump
HG> to next flagged" afterwards. But if I am using the flag for another
HG> purpose, I can't do that. I don't see any other way to jump from a selected
HG> line to the next.
There is none.
HG> So, how is the search operation intended to be used?
You manually go to each of the messages. Terribly user-friendly, I know.
HG> Perhaps a generalized concept of flags would help.
HG> Why not have many kinds of flags (any character?) and treat the unread,
HG> new, etc. simply as one of them? E.g. the result of a search could be
HG> flagged S.
It's not very easy because not all folders support custom flags. What we
really need is the support for arbitrary message metadata I keep speaking
about.
So this is definitely something which must be improved but I have some
doubts that it can happen very soon.
Sorry,
VZ
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