Use Mail for most of my email, but not for reading this email forum. Here I use a gmail account ... it's almost all I use gmail for.
In Mail, I set the Inbox to "Organize By Thread" and sort in reverse order by time. That does almost all of what I want it to do with regards to navigating through a stream of messages in topical order. I do have an extensive set of filters to sort email into different mail boxes, flag some, present all flagged entries, etc. Since I get upwards of 300 email messages a day, I find these facilities essential and also find that Mail does handles it well. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using mutt as my primary mail reader for 15 years, before that it > was elm. I'm used to the convenience of text based mail clients which had > different search functions for going to the next email which matches a > criteria, and limiting the emails shown to those that match a pattern. > > When the mail server was moved to one that I can't log into quite as easily, > I started using the mac mail client. It isn't nearly as intuitive as the > text based programs and Mac help varies from bad to counterproductive. I > don't want to only show messages that match a search pattern, I just want to > go to the next message that matches a search pattern, but I can't figure out > how to do that on mac. > > This list has so much traffic, I often only have time to follow threads that > I'm already actively taking part in, so I'll search for my name, then scan > the thread. But if I search for my name, go to the email with it, then empty > the search string, then I lose the marking of where I am. Is there a mail > client on the mac that'll let me do this? > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
