Re: [Evolution] recursively search folders

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

Since this follow-up may be interesting to others as well, I send it to
the list too, where it originated -- although the mail was sent to me
only. Can't tell if it was on purpose or by accident anyway. Hope you
don't mind me keeping list posts on-list. ;-)


On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 00:05 +0100, Michal Mertl wrote:
[...]
> > I'm pretty sure this one is filed in bugzilla, Unfortunately, this
> > feature is not implemented yet.
> >
> > As a workaround, you could either set up some (kind of static) Search
> > Folders (formerly known as vFolders) for particular folders, or use a
> > global one including all mail...
>
> I've got some 1.5G worth of emails (dating back to 1999 or so) so
> searching all of them all the time would probably be pretty time
> consuming.

Understood.

Unfortunately, a large mail base is a common issue for most users who
structure their mail in a lot of sub-folders and really would benefit
from a feature to include entire sub-trees in a search.


If any Evo developer reads this, please consider raising the priority of
these features:

* An option to include all sub-folders in a search. The UI bits could be
  implemented similar to the "include threads" feature in the (advanced)
  search dialog.

* A new "specific folders and all subfolders" Source for vFolders.


As it is getting pretty late again and I am too lazy to hunt down the
originally filed bug, I just filed them. ;)  The second one should be
unique anyway. Let#s see if I can find the duplicate tomorrow. :)


> But you are right that I can probably set up a couple of
> folder-lists to use when I want to search through some group of folders.
>
> Thank you

Sure, glad it helps. :)  Although, granted, this merely is a workaround.
Search Folders are pretty static and don't allow for on the fly
searching of entire folder trees. Even worse, it may not be a feasible
solution at all, if the sub-tree happens to have a lot of structured
folders -- where "a lot" most likely is as low as 10, cause the UI
doesn't allow to add more than one folder at a time...

...guenther


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