searching behaviour 6.06b1/6.05 and previous

2010-12-14 Thread m. osti
problems on the listserver? i sent this message last friday but never received it. === in order to get a result from a search I have to restart pm otherwise i got only a _no item found_. i m on a macbook so i have pm and others apps running all the time, maybe this hint can help. it has been

searching behaviour 6.06b1/6.05 and previous

2010-12-14 Thread m. osti
in order to get a result from a search I have to restart pm otherwise i got only a _no item found_. i m on a macbook so i have pm and others apps running all the time, maybe this hint can help. it has been happening to me for a long time http://www.mail-archive.com/

Searching by Message-Id

2008-01-23 Thread Marco Piovanelli
Hi folks, Is there a way to search my PowerMail database by Message-ID? You know, those unique identifiers (shown in the full headers) that look like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If not, the ability to do so would be a welcome addition to the already powerful search capabilities of this

Re: Searching by Message-Id

2008-01-23 Thread MB
Marco Piovanelli said: Hi folks, Is there a way to search my PowerMail database by Message-ID? You know, those unique identifiers (shown in the full headers) that look like this: I think the header is not fully indexed. You can search with a script though, but it takes a very long time.

Searching is slow

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Watts-Jones
'PowerMail Files' folder, I see that the 'Message Database index' dates from my last major PM upgrade in October 2006 and carries neither type nor creator (so the Finder doesn't what to use to open it) . Is such slowing searching normal? And, if so, would FoxTrot be equally slow if I invested

Re: Searching is slow

2007-02-14 Thread PowerMail Engineering
- PowerMail Engineering - PowerMail is the email client for me for several reasons: (1) the integrity of the database, (2) the incredible searching speed, (3) the filtering system meets all my needs, (4) I absolutely

Re: Searching is slow

2007-02-14 Thread Derry Thompson
it) . Is such slowing searching normal? And, if so, would FoxTrot be equally slow if I invested in it as a standalone? -- Charles PM 5.5.3 - Intel iMac - OS 10.4.8 Interesting. My Message database is around 1GB, the Message Database index is 248mb and it took 7 seconds to 'sort and optimize'. -- Derry

Re(2): Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-25 Thread Karel Gillissen
Sorry, Rick, I migrated to an new Dual G5 some months ago and I was sure that I made a backup of all the 'non-critical' stuff on a few DVD's, but I have not been able to locate the script so far. Unfortunately for you I'm out for some skiing the next few days so I won't be able to look further

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
searching where it is. Karel

Re(2): Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Karel Gillissen
I think you should make a backup of your PM folder here and perform the filter on this backup. And -for instance- move the potentially suspect messages to a separate folder. Karel Op vrijdag, 24 februari 2006 schreef Rick Lecoat: My problem with the filtering option is that the filter needs to

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
My problem with the filtering option is that the filter needs to DO something to the message. And I don't want to move these messages, or relabel them, or anything like that. I just want to leave them as they are and see them displayed in a window. Maybe I'll just *have* to move them to a

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
Ah, gotcha Karel. Sorry, your follow-up message arrived before the first one for some reason. So I was pointing out mistakes where none existed. Sorry about that. -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.3 :: PM 5.2.3 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio www.sharkattack.co.uk --

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
Only one problem with that Karel; the Other field option appears in Filters but not in Search. At least, it doesn't seem to appear in my search dialogue box. I had thought that searching by Other headers was the way to go too -- until I tried it and realised that the options was not there. I

Re(2): Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Karel Gillissen
Just an afterthought (I hit the send button too soon) You could also try: Other Field... Content-Type does not contain plain AND Other Field Content- Type Contains Windows-1252 This might narrow your search,as most likely your spam message is of the 1252-type. Karel Op vrijdag, 24 februari

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Karel Gillissen
Hi Rick, In stead of performing a search, you could try defining a filter here: In a filter set Other Field... Content Type does not contain plain. I think this will catch HTML messages. Karel Op vrijdag, 24 februari 2006 schreef Rick Lecoat: Anybody have anything to suggest? How can I

Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
the message is put together. I thought I'd try searching for any message who's content did NOT contain the phrase Content-Type: text.plain (which assumes that the 'Content' parameter in the search dialogue box includes headers, which is not explicitly stated). But discovered that you can't search for 'does

Re: Please, FIX SEARCHING GLITCHES and make it more user friendly!

2005-11-21 Thread Mikael Byström
Alan Harper said: I search for From includes all the words cpalmer135 and it comes up, while a search for From includes all the words Craig does not. Are you sure that the word David doesn't appear somewhere else and that is why you are finding it? Yes. Otherwise, we are just getting different

Re: Please, FIX SEARCHING GLITCHES and make it more user friendly!

2005-11-20 Thread Barbara Needham
PROTECTED] I search for From includes all the words cpalmer135 and it comes up, while a search for From includes all the words Craig does not. Are you sure that the word David doesn't appear somewhere else and that is why you are finding it? I have found that searching for at least one of the words

Re(2): Please, FIX SEARCHING GLITCHES and make it more user friendly!

2005-11-19 Thread Alan Harper
Mikael I do not get the same results as you do. I just rebuilt the index in the way you suggested. I have an email that says: -- RFC822 Header Follows -- Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and my address book has Craig Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I search for From

Re: Please, FIX SEARCHING GLITCHES and make it more user friendly!

2005-11-17 Thread Mikael Byström
Alan Harper said: It would be so helpful if one could search for emails by the person's name, and not just their email address. This is already possible. It used to be the other way around, that one could only search for the displayed name and not the email address. To prove the current

Re: Please, FIX SEARCHING GLITCHES and make it more user friendly!

2005-11-17 Thread Mikael Byström
Something that I think need to be addressed at some point is the sorting and optimizing that takes place if you have received messages since your last search. If you check mail every five minutes or something like that, you have to wait about every second time you conduct a search and once a day

Re(2): Please, FIX SEARCHING GLITCHES and make it more user friendly!

2005-11-17 Thread Alan Harper
At Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:01:03 +0100 PowerMail Engineering wrote: The mark as good command indexes the message, if the spam filter was set to not index spam. You can also set the preferences to automatically mark messages as good when you move them out of the spam folder. No it doesn't. At least

Re: Please, FIX SEARCHING GLITCHES and make it more user friendly!

2005-11-16 Thread PowerMail Engineering
Alan Harper wrote: 1) When indexing is turned off by an action (say, in the spam filter), there is no way to turn it back on. The mark as good command indexes the message, if the spam filter was set to not index spam. You can also set the preferences to automatically mark messages as good when

Please, FIX SEARCHING GLITCHES and make it more user friendly!

2005-11-16 Thread Alan Harper
I have two big gripes with Powermail and they are driving me crazy. By far the most important thing when, like me, you keep everything and want to refer to it later is SEARCHING (we're talking 100s of 1000s of emails). Powermail is (rightfully) proud of its searching, and integration

Searching on from ignores the name in the address book

2005-11-03 Thread Alan Harper
One of my biggest frustrations with PowerMail is its inability to associate the from address with the human readable name in the address book. For instance I have a friend Craig Smith who sends mail from home using [EMAIL PROTECTED] and from work using [EMAIL PROTECTED] . When I get email from

Re: Searching in Replaced Database

2005-05-29 Thread Marlyse Comte
time for maintenance: quit PM. launch PM with option-command keys down - reindex database. ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - I had to erase my main drive due to problems unrelated to PowerMail. Re- installing PowerMail in the new setup I copied over the PM

Searching Headers

2004-12-05 Thread fk
Hello all, Is there a way to search the full headers of emails? Thanks, Kename

searching through spam

2004-09-11 Thread Rick Lecoat
My Spam filters include the action Do not index message content. If I then want to search through the Spam folder (to make sure that a specific email hasn't been marked as Spam by mistake, for example), how can I manually index the folder to make those mails searchable? TIA Rick -- G5 2GHz x2

Re: searching

2004-05-18 Thread Barbara Needham
david.gordon on 5/18/04 said It would be better to have an OR search though wouldn't it? The search entry box is quite small to get a lot of info into if you want to find messages from (say) five people. For those of us used to Boolean searches it would make it a lot clearer, anyway. --

Re: searching

2004-05-18 Thread david.gordon
Richard Hart wrote on Tue 18 May 2004 at 07:07 -0700 It sounds as though you're searching for John AND Jane. They can't both send the same message. Yes, that's it! What you want is to find a message from John OR Jane. Exactly! I cannot find a way to perform an OR search, though. So how

Re: searching

2004-05-18 Thread Christian Roth
Richard Hart wrote: What you want is to find a message from John OR Jane. I cannot find a way to perform an OR search, though. So how are you doing the OR part? It MIGHT work if you do a [From] [contains at least one of the words] [Jane John] and there are no other Johns or Janes in that

Re: searching

2004-05-18 Thread Barbara Needham
Richard Hart on 5/18/04 said David Gordon wrote: I can't find _any_ messages when I try to find them both at the same time It sounds as though you're searching for John AND Jane. They can't both send the same message. What you want is to find a message from John OR Jane. I cannot find a way

Re: searching

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Hart
David Gordon wrote: I can't find _any_ messages when I try to find them both at the same time It sounds as though you're searching for John AND Jane. They can't both send the same message. What you want is to find a message from John OR Jane. I cannot find a way to perform an OR search, though

searching

2004-05-18 Thread david.gordon
I want to find messages from two people in one mail box (imagine I want to find all the messages John and Jane had sent to this list). I can find messages from John Search [in selected folder (PowerMail) only] for messages whose: From or To - includes at least on of the words - John OR

mailbox error / searching hangs

2004-04-14 Thread smelik
Hi, I have an odd mailbox error: a line of an attachment appears across the mailbox listing (I cannot include a snapshot, alas, to the maillist). It overlaps with the regular list. It is the first line of an attachment (but never of either subject of body field). It does not disappear when

Wish List: Address book searching

2004-04-02 Thread Jim Pistrang
Hi all, Here's one for the wish list, having to do with the Address Book: When I use the View Only text field to filter the Address Book display, the resulting list includes both individual addresses that meet my criteria, and any Groups that those addresses are a part of. I would really like

Re: searching/filtering does not work in HTML mails

2003-09-19 Thread Mikael Bystr
Gregor, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The filter I use is: OTHER FIELD Content-type CONTAINS text/html FROM is not in address book If all conditions are met: Move to trash Of course! Works perfectly, thanks a lot! Except of course that not all mail with HTML have text/html as value in that header

Re: searching a msg.

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Pistrang
Hi L., Like many folks - I get some long digests. W/ ver. 4.2 is it no longer possible to search within a specified message skip to where that word or string appears in the message? I thought it was possible in previous version, but maybe my memory is foggy. Look at 'Find in Current

searching a msg.

2003-09-12 Thread L. Cornelio
hi all. Like many folks - I get some long digests. W/ ver. 4.2 is it no longer possible to search within a specified message skip to where that word or string appears in the message? I thought it was possible in previous version, but maybe my memory is foggy. thanks

Re: Searching in headers

2003-09-11 Thread david.gordon
Rick Lecoat wrote on Thu 11 Sep 2003 at 14:50 +0100 Filters *can* recognise specific headers. So, create a filter that looks for the header field that you want to search for, and set it to assign a particular label to any message with that field. Run this filter through all your messages (a bit

Re: Searching in headers

2003-09-11 Thread Rick Lecoat
I don't think that you can search via headers directly, but a possible workaround occurs to me: Filters *can* recognise specific headers. So, create a filter that looks for the header field that you want to search for, and set it to assign a particular label to any message with that field. Run

Re: searching/filtering does not work in HTML mails

2003-09-08 Thread Forrest Lacy
Gregor Schmidpeter wrote: 4.2 final does not filter nor search any content (my favorite new feature) of those typical HTML spam mails : W!--u410n82qmyg6h--hy etc., etc. etc., etc., etc. etc. Why not?... You'll notice I've altered the above typical html spam content to only one

Re: searching/filtering does not work in HTML mails

2003-09-08 Thread Gregor Schmidpeter
Am 07.09.2003 um 18:08 Uhr schreibt Barbara Needham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): and filtering on content-type Am 07.09.2003 um 21:25 Uhr schreibt Chris Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm assuming that you are trying to remove spam. The filter I use is: OTHER FIELD Content-type CONTAINS text/html FROM

Re: searching/filtering does not work in HTML mails

2003-09-07 Thread John Snippe
On Sun, Sep 7, 2003, it is attributed to Don V. Zahniser to have said: Or am I missing something on being able to search/filter on these kinds of characters? I am guessing that a grep and using 'search pattern' might work. Don't know grep, so it remains a guess. You are correct, tho, that

Re: searching/filtering does not work in HTML mails

2003-09-07 Thread Don V. Zahniser
I have been trying (on-and-off) to come up with a filter to detect HTML mail, also with no success. One of the difficulties that I have run into is that PowerMail (in searches, at least) seems to ignore any characters that are not actually alphabet or numbers. For example: If I try to do a

Re: searching/filtering does not work in HTML mails

2003-09-07 Thread Barbara Needham
Gregor Schmidpeter on 9/7/03 said Why not? How should I filter those html mails? Wouldn't it be a nice feature anyway to make a filter with any mail which contains html? You can do that somewhat successfully by using any header in the filter and filtering on content-type. Not perfect, but

searching/filtering does not work in HTML mails

2003-09-07 Thread Gregor Schmidpeter
Hi all, 4.2 final does not filter nor search any content (my favorite new feature) of those typical HTML spam mails : W!--u410n82qmyg6h--hy Spe!--32uyer3l93g--nd M!--whk7h93gffuk-- ore!--bdz2tv23jxjoh-- Tha!--xa11cg1p9n56--n Yo!--49quwkocar8k2--u Have!--bt7spqjbbzwl-- To? Why not?