[Evolution] Negative searches

[Anonymous Japhering <japhering gmail com>]

Evolution  3.38.4 (flatpak git5dcefb2)

I'm currently being overrun by emails from on particular source, which unfortunately I need to read every single

one.

I know I can set a rule to peel all of then off into a separate folder, but that negates the value of using Imap as the

folder only exists in Evolution.  Additionally,  it loses me some of the context of what came in with any particular email.

So the question is ... can one do a negative search on an inbox?    Something like  !<email address>  or  -<email address>, 

these two variants return a completely empty response ( even though the inbox has  about 10,000 emails of which currently

about 2,500 I'd like to exclude.

Thakns