Re: [Evolution] Searching using Expressions...or using and / or.....

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:32 +0100, Steve T wrote:
> Evolution 3.2.3, Gnome 3
>
> I want to be able to set up searches that use a mixture of ands and
> ors - ie typically say I wanted to create a search for this 'group',
> and then only select messages sent by me or one other person. In
> pseudo code:
>
> WHERE subject matches '[Evolution]*'
> AND    (sender matches 'stevetucknott*' OR sender matches
> 'joebloggs*')

That's https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250511

> What is the easiest way of going about this? I looked at 'Expressions'
> but can't then find the documentation to show what I can do with them.
> Should I be using 'regex' rather than an expression - and is there
> anywhere that tells me what fields are available to be
> matched/compared?

The documentation is bad (non-existant?) because its author did not
understand the functionality either and more or less copied the
regex/expressions part from the old documentation. :P

Proposals for
http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.4/mail-searching.html are
welcome.

andre

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