Re: [Evolution] search for body text not working

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Montag, den 22.06.2009, 10:56 -0400 schrieb Chris Hallinan:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Evolution for some time now, and mostly it's been
> solid!  I'm using Evolution 2.22.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04LTS, straight from
> the Ubuntu repo.

Are you forced to stay on ubuntu 8.04. evolution 2.26 which comes with
ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) has a ton of bugs fixed.
I might even be as dary as checking out the latest git version of
evolution.

> However, I have been unsuccessful getting the search function to work
> searching for "Body contains", in the dropdown search tool.
>
> Other modes work, especially subject or sender, but nothing I've
> tried, including Advanced search, allows me to search for text within
> the body of an e-mail.  Even simple words such as "and" and "the" do
> not produce results.  I'm forced to use grep on my actual mail files
> (using spooldir format) to search for body text.
>
> Is this a known issue with this version, or maybe I'm doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> Chris


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thomas