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<p dir="auto">On 14 Oct 2013, at 19:03, MailMate wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I too would like to some generalization options. I would like to use MM for my wife, her needs are simpler than mine but the following generalizations would be extremely helpful to her.</p>
<p dir="auto">Today - Arrived/Sent sometime between 0000 & 2400 hours<br>
Yesterday - Arrived/Sent sometime between 0000 & 2400 hours on the day before today<br>
This week - Arrived/Sent sometime in the current week (Sun-Mon or Mon-Sun, user preference)<br>
Last week - Arrived/Sent sometime in the previous week (Sun-Mon or Mon-Sun, user preference)<br>
This month - Arrived/Sent in the current month<br>
Last month - Arrived/Sent in the previous month</p>
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<p dir="auto">This is similar to what is possible in the Finder (except for “last week/month”). These options are simply listed below the other date comparison options.</p>
<p dir="auto">I would prefer (as always) something a bit more general. Something which would allow one to pick any range of days/weeks/months/years relative to the current date.</p>
<p dir="auto">One way to view this is to have it as a checkmark option for the search condition. For illustration:</p>
<pre><code>Date is within last 1 days [ ]
Date is within last 1 days [✓]
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<p dir="auto">Where the latter means that it should be interpreted as “from the beginning of this day”. Using that “yesterday” would be:</p>
<pre><code>All of the following are true
Date is within last 2 days [✓]
Date is not within last 1 days [✓]
</code></pre>
<p dir="auto">Similarly a checkmark would mean “from the beginning of this week/month/year”.</p>
<p dir="auto">Now, my main problem is the wording of such a checkmark option (English is not my native language). The checkmark option could be placed in the “days” popup or the “is within last” popup similar to how the case sensitive option of string comparisons is located.</p>
<p dir="auto">Note that this does not prevent some hardcoded alternatives for “today”, “this week/month/year”.</p>
<p dir="auto">Don't take this as me currently working on implementing this. I'm just thinking about how to do it when I have time for it.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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