Re: Mail Search surrogate
Re: Mail Search surrogate
- Subject: Re: Mail Search surrogate
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:24:41 -0700
Thanks for your suggestions--
On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:56 P, Michelle Steiner wrote:
This sorta works:
<...>
I say "sorta" because... It doesn't return messages fitting the
criteria if...
Thanks, Michelle, but this isn't quite it. I'm refereeing a dispute,
and I need to verify with great confidence that NO messages were
received in that time interval.
I don't mind writing a script to traverse the tree of all messages,
if I can find a traversing strategy that works "with great confidence".
On Apr 9, 2009, at 8:12 A, Roger Howard wrote:
Rather than recreate a search engine in AppleScript, why not use
Spotlight
I had heard that there is a use for Spotlight, but I never knew what
it was. I found the Spotlight/Search function in Mail to be very
unpredictable, returning results that had nothing to do with what I
had in mind, and sometimes returning nothing while I was looking
right at a message that satisfied what I thought were very simple
criteria.
I thought, "This can't be a shippable product." Then I thought,
because other people keep talking about it, maybe I simply don't know
how to use it.
So now maybe it's time for me to find out how to use Spotlight properly.
Thanks for the suggestion, Roger.
Google "spotlight mdfind".
I'll give it a try.
Thanks to both of you.
--Gil
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