On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:27:42PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Noah Slater <[email protected]> [07-20-09 22:36]: > > > > I cannot search for multi-word strings such as "f:noah slater" but > > instead have to encode this as "f:noah f:slater". The whole syntax > > for specifying queries is awkward and bizarre. Something more like > > Gmail would be ideal. > > > > sure you can, f:noah,slater finds "noah" and "slater" > s:suse= finds Subject with suse substring
This doesn't do what I want. I want to search for "noah slater" with a significant space. > > I am unable to search for "any message with an attachment" which > > infuriates me. > > n:word > > Match word occurring as the name of an attachment in the > message. Since attachment names are usually long, this option > would usually be used in the substring form. So > > mairix n:mairix= > > would match all messages which have attachments whose names > contain the substring mairix. > > The attachment name is determined from the name=xxx or > filename=xxx qualifiers on the Content-Type: and > Content-Disposition: headers respectively. This doesn't do what I want. I want to search for any message with an attachment, regardless of name. Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
