[MlMt] Using multiple search terms?
Randall Meadows
randy.meadows at not-pc.com
Mon Nov 30 20:20:32 EST 2015
On 30 Nov 2015, at 16:09, Bill Cole wrote:
> 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.
DOH! Of course. Thanks for pointing out my boneheadedness. :)
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