[MlMt] Using multiple search terms?

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Mon Nov 30 18:09:39 EST 2015


On 30 Nov 2015, at 16:29, Randall Meadows wrote:

> Am I misunderstanding how searching works?  Specifically, with 
> multiple search queries?
>
> E.g., I entered "from:tary body:updated" into the search field and 
> pressed enter.  The blue bar at the top of the message list now 
> displays
>
> From contains "tary" and Body contains "updated"
>
> which describes exactly what I was looking for, but the results list 
> is empty, despite the fact that--prior to the executing the query--I 
> was looking at a message that should have satisfied that query .
>
> Single queries seem to work OK, but that leaves me with a lot of stuff 
> to sift through, so I was trying to narrow down the results, but zero 
> results is a little *too* narrow.

body:updated would actually be searching for the word 'updated' in a 
*HEADER* named 'body which is probably not what you want.

If you enter 'updated from:tary' in the search box you should get what 
you are looking for.


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