Toralf Lund wrote: >ann sanfedele wrote: > > >>TIA if you can tell me how to use the search mechanism to find the >>unread message in my 3000 plus message inbox... >> >> >> >Well, I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird rather than Netscape Communicator, >but since these essentially different variants of the same product I'll >give it a go... > > >>can an unread message be hidden? >> >> >> >Not as far as I know. > >However, I've often looked for the new message in a similar manner to >what you described above, and found that it was "hidden" because I was >using the threaded view, and the new message was grouped with something >else that wasn't really related just because it happened to have the >same subject. Or, rather, in most cases both messages had no subject at all. >
I tried several variations of that to no avail, actually >>whenever I get on to read my mail the inbox is sorted by date and I >>delete all suspicious email immediately and >>open everything else... >> >>usually, after I do this , the number of unread message thingy in parens >>disappears... >>today it has not... I see no way to search by unread messages and I >>scrolled through the whole list >> >> >> >In Thunderbird I'm able to do this if I select Edit/Find/Search >Messages... In the little box that pops up then, there is an "option >menu"/ "combo box" on the top where I can select which of my mailboxes >to search in. Most of the time, Inbox will be selected already. A bit >below that, there is row that contains 2 more buttons with menus and a >text field or another menu depending on the setting for the other two, >and initially looks like > >[ Subject ] [ Contains ] [_________] > mine is subject or sender ... > >By clicking on the buttons and making selections from the related menus, >I can change that to > >[ Status ] [ is ] [ New ] > >or alternatively > >[ Status ] [isn't] [ Read ] > >and that's about it, really. > >I hope this makes some sense to you ;-) > >- Toralf > It makes sense but I couldn't find a way to do it... I tried to sort by status using the icons to the left of the subject line sigh thanks for your suggestions -- maybe it will help someone else who is in a similar pickle :) ann > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
