I cannot reproduce this. In my Powermail folder (this discussion group) are 5769 messages (OK, I have to do some cleaning up here...). View only (subject=applescript) returns 122 messages. 'Find by content' in selected folder returns 1000 messages (case insensitive) Search time about 3 seconds
So it's working here as expected.... my configuration: G4 cube/450 OS 10.2.6 PowerMail 4.1.3 1024 MB RAM 120 GB HD Karel Op dinsdag, 27 mei 2003 schreef Tim Lapin: >The issue, for me at any rate, is not that the "fuzzy" search of PM finds >too many hits. The problem is that it finds too few. As a test, I ran a >sample search, comparing the "View only..." option with the "Find" search >using the same criteria. > >The test was to find all messages in the "PowerMail discussion" folder >with the word "Applescript". As I'm not sure if either search is case >sensitive, I spelled it identically in both cases. > >The "View only..." search found 122 instances while searching on >"subject". I keep my folders trimmed down so that made sense. The >"Find" search found only 10. Given how both searches work, I would have >expected the opposite result, with "Find" returning far more hits than >the more restrictive "View only..." > >For good measure, I repeated the tests after updating from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 >and following the recommendations for rebuilding the indexes. The >results were the same. > >Go figure. > >-- >Tim Lapin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >G4/AGP/400 OS 10.2.6 PowerMail 4.1.3 384 MB RAM 40+10 GB HDs > > >
