On 10 8 2003 at 12:45 pm -0400, PowerMail Engineering wrote:
>It will be explained in the manual in the final version: the search
>pattern let you combine the other options in a single search string. For
>example, the pattern:
> PowerMail feature search* | find* "very fast" -slow -sluggish
>is equivalent to:
> includes all of the words: powermail feature
> includes at least one of the words: search* find*
> includes the exact phrase: very fast
> does not include the words: slow sluggish
Ah. So by choosing "includes all of the words", the or (|), negation (-)
and word grouping ("") operators are ignored and the words are searched
verbatim sans punctuation. Otherwise it is the same? (The fact that
wildcards DO work here is perhaps inconsistent).
Anyway, something still appears wrong with the search:
This time I searched on all local mail folders, content, "includes all of
the words", "asparagus". To my surprise, two messages came up containing
asparagus. :-) Okay, fine. Next, I changed the criterion to "does not
include the words". I expected to get about 16,000 messages back
(namely, the rest of my database except for these two messages). To my
surprise, I got only the same two messages (that DO contain asparagus)!
Similarly, search by content, "matches the search pattern", "-asparagus"
has the same result: it gives results that contain asparagus, not the
other way around.
-ben
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