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On Tuesday, June 9 at 08:51 PM, quoth Jan-Herbert Damm:
>Hello,
>
>i am confused about mutt's searching behaviour.
>if i use the "/" (slash)- command in the index of my inbox i can search for a
>name of somebody who sent me a mail. But the same command doesn't work in my
>"sent" box. There the search only seems to match strings in the subject line.
>
>i am sure there is a simple explanation.
The short-short answer is: it IS searching the name of the person that
sent the mail, but in your sent box, they've all been sent by *you*.
When you do a search (via "/"), you're being prompted for a "simple
pattern". But if you don't specify a pattern (e.g. something that
begins with a tilde-letter combo), mutt uses the $simple_search
setting to build a pattern string. The *default* $simple_search is:
~f %s | ~s %s
What that essentially means is "find messages that have this string
(%s) in the from-header (~f) or that have this string (%s) in the
subject line (~s).
Presumably, in your sent box, you'd want it to also search the
recipients (since, like I said, all the messages in your sent box were
sent by YOU), so you could change it to being:
~f %s | ~s %s | ~C %s
Check the manual's (or the muttrc man page's) description of "simple
patterns" for more details on what those letters mean.
~Kyle
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Only small minds want always to be right.
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