Telsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 02 Oct 1999:
> I gather checking the entire message body would be a very big job
> and result in slowing things down.
and
> I'm not desperate to sort on message bodies
I actually use l(imit) with a ~b pattern quite frequently to locate some
messages from which I only remember part of the content (eg. "What was
that URL again that I remember mailing to someone 3 months ago?").
Instead of using scoring, it would probably be possible to assign a
specific limit command to a macro and use this as necessary on demand.
That way entering folders is still quick and the time-consuming part of
matching message bodies can be done when you want it, but not otherwise.
Depending on the size of the mailbox, limit based on body text can take
a long time. However, considering that those folders which do take
awhile for me are rather huge (eg. 8MB and more, thousands of messages),
I would think that using this limit on any sane-sized mail folder would
be quite prompt. Machine speed is certainly a big factor, of course.
Mikko
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