Re: [Evolution] expression search / complex search phrase

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.06.2013, 18:22 +0400 schrieb Emre Erenoglu:
> > Jun 13, 2013; 5:13am — by  Thomas Mittelstaedt
> >
> > Why don't you use filters to filter your many emails in your huge INBOX,
> > assigning tags (labels) to them, moving them into different folders and
> > so on.
> > You find that under Edit->message Filters in the main menu.
>
> Thanks Thomas for your proposal as well. Indeed, this type of working
> is suitable for many people and some of my team are doing like this.
> However, each deal with let's say around 10-20 proposals a year.
>
> As of now, we've already made 100+ proposals, it will easily exceed
> 200+ by end of the year. One of them that we are about to sign a
> contract has 942 messages including the ones in my archive. Making
> ~200+ folders per year is not sustainable and categorizing mails into
> folders also take time if filters don't work (not everybody make a
> proper subject line unfortunately).
>
> That's why I've chosen not to use folders at all and I depend solely
> on filter/search as I need it through the a daywork. It served me well

Well, at least, move them out of the INBOX folder. I had some trouble in
the past with mails in those special folders like INBOX, OUTBOX, DRAFTS.
If you don't want to organize your mail into many folders, use labels,
as I mentioned in my last post. And you can organize the filters in a
cascading way until they are moved somewhere. That means you can set a
label <tag_a> based on one criteria in filter <A> and build a filter <B>
that uses <tag_a> as the criterion to assign another label or not.
And then you can build search folders, based on the results of that
filtering! 
Pretty powerful. Just play around with it a little before punting.

(And by the way, if you know how to work with an sqlite database,
you can inspect the mail databases folders.db directly.)

-- 
thomas