Re: [Evolution] Searching emails?

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 23.02.2011, 15:49 +0100 schrieb Thomas Novin:
> Hello
>
> I constantly have a need for searching through my emails. For my Gmail
> account I usually go to Gmail Webmail which has a very advanced way of
> doing this (if you know the search filters) and it's extremely fast.
>
> For my other account which is an IMAP-connection to an Exchange-server I
> can only search from within Evolution. Since the search function is
> limited, 

What do you mean by "limited"?

> right now my best way is to 'grep -ri <query>' in
> ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/imap/xxx'. For example, doing a body
> search in Evolution in "Current Account" will show nothing from a search
> that gives 100s of matches with grep.

Well, you have the search box above the message summary list. To the
right, there should be a combo box where you can choose to search the
whole current account or all accounts. And you can also set up search
folders.

> I tried Google Desktop but it would only index emails from Thunderbird,
> not Evolution.
>
> Any suggestions? I want a fully indexed search and would like to be able
> to specify all the "common" attributes.
>
> Btw, I'm on Evolution 2.32.2.
>
> Rgds//Thomas

Tracker also scans evolution mails, see
http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/.


-- 
thomas