Am Sonntag, den 18.07.2010, 01:53 +0200 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt: > Am Samstag, den 17.07.2010, 10:54 -0600 schrieb Simon Siemens: > > Hi, > > > > I use Evolution for my IMAP account. The inbox there contains several > > folders. The inbox almost no email. All are in those folders. > > > > When I search with the search bar in the whole account, then only a > > subset of the hits are shown. In a specific example, only one email is > > shown in the results list, whereas the application title say "Konto > > durchsuchen (11 insgesamt) - Evolution" (in English, it is something > > like "Account search (11 in total) - Evolution"). I did not count the > > real number of emails that match the search, but 11 sounds quite > > reasonable. The one it shows, is the only match, which is in the inbox. > > > > So, how can I make Evolution show me all eleven hits? > > > > If I go into a folder and search only in it, all emails are shown. > > > > I played a bit with the view menu, with no success though. Hide deleted > > messages is marked, but has no effect if I unset it. Actually, the > > emails I am looking for, are not deleted. The other options (hide chosen > > and read message, show hidden messages) are not marked. > > > > Can you help me how to do searching right in Evolution? > > > > Ever since I started to use evolution (2.25 then, now 2.28.4), I found > the searching in current account and all accounts to be unreliable. > It was helpful to use the "wipe all button" to the right of the > search entry field or Strg-Shift-Q to make sure there is a clean > state before searching. > > I recommend to use saved searches to create a search and then click > through the folders of interest applying that saved search. That proved > to be reliable. > I also would recommend you to use filters extensively to organize your > mail. You then need less searching because the filters tell you in which > folders certain mails end up.
I also use imap and I have filters set up that put certain labels on mails and then move them to local folders. > I also used search folders to search multiple folders. That used to work > for a one-time search. But don't be tempted to use those virtual search > folders for regular mail reading. When new mails arrive the update of > the search folders simply doesn't work reliably as far as my experiences > goes. > Hope that helps, > In order to find mails in a lot of folders you might consider combining the unix 'find' command with a program called 'grepmail' to search the mbox files in your .evolution folder. You could also use indexing tools like gnome's tracker, http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/, or http://www.swish-e.org/ or beagle, http://beagle-project.org, to index your mail. -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
