On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 5:28 PM, Michael Lewis sent forth: >Thank you, Bob, for hitting the nail on its head. I, too, don't have an >issue with the PM searching because it does tend to rank its hits fairly >well and put the important ones at the top of the list. That it finds a >whole lot of other ones isn't an issue for me, because I understand the >kind of searching being done. > >-- >Michael Lewis >
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
