Re: [Evolution] Fwd: expression search / complex search phrase

[Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com>]

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 12:48 +0400, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I generally have 1500-2000 emails in my inbox before I archive them,
> and as part of my daily email activity at work, I depend a lot on
> email search.
>
> I'm using Thunderbird & Outlook, what I do in Thunderbird is using the
> GmailUI/ExpressionSearch add-on. With this add-on, I can do searches
> like:
> from:some_guy to:other_guy subject:topic1
> and see only mails from some_guy sent to or cc other_guy under the
> subject topic1.
>
> some other time, I'm just using from:name subject:topic2 to search for
> specific email subject coming from a specific person.
>
> At the moment, evolution does not let me do this and forces me to
> choose from a drop-down list with limited choice.
>
> Is there some way to write such complex search phrase?
>
> Note that it becomes much more critical when I do searches on my
> localhost imap archive server, containing 15 to 25k messages per year.

Top menu,select search, advanced search, add whatever conditions you
wish.  If it's a search that you do often, then name it and save it for
later re-use