Re: [Evolution] Searching All Mail

[HvR <hvrietsc myrealbox com>]

i find that scanning the emails for recipients is not that fast if you have many large emails, what i use as matching rule is "received is before now" it is oodles faster...

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:10, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:28, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > You are able to just select the specific folders you wish to search 
> > under. Eg. you can select "employer" and "client" and "project" folders 
> > individually and add them to the list of folders to search.
>
> Usually the most useful thing is the "all mail on all folders" -vfolder,
> in most cases you find what you are looking for anyway - it's pretty
> powerful as a "mail google". 
>
> It's generic, reasonably fast (I have 134000 messages in my Evolution
> (yea, about the time to clean up a bit :), it takes a moment to come up,
> but every time it's faster than looking through the stuff manually
> anyway..)
>
> So if you make more fine-grained ones, usually you need something that
> can be outside  that folder tree branch anyway - I have found that the
> most generic "match all everywhere" is the most useful in practice.
>
> My rule is "recipient contains '@' from all local and remote folders" -
> that works pretty well :)
>
> Tuomas