[MlMt] Suggested way to quickly find all messages to and from given email adress?

[Carl Wernhoff]

> The single-letter modifiers are static, but you can use any header or 
> MM-generated pseudo-header in the search field. So "#any-address: 
> example.com" will find any mail you've exchanged with anyone in 
> example.com.
>
> Another option: quit MM, open Terminal, and enter this command:
>
>    defaults write com.freron.MailMate  MmDefaultSearchScope 
> '#any-address'
>
> Then when you launch MM, the default search from the search box will 
> be what MM refers to as "Any Address" which I believe includes all of 
> the standard address-list headers.

Interesting! Thanks for this suggestion and the others you gave.


> Finally, you could modify the default behavior of the "Search" toolbar 
> button instead. Click that and you get a search bar where you can set 
> up any sort of search you like, e.g. "Any Address contains" with an 
> empty search value. To make that search the default, use the menu 
> command Edit->Find->Use As Default Search. The next time you click the 
> Search toolbar button, the search bar will come up with the search you 
> set.

A great option - haden't thought of the possibility of adding the Search 
button.


> What about the 'a' modifier, for "Any address header" as listed in the 
> search syntax documentation?

This is of course exactly what I'm looking for. I've read the list of 
static modifiers several times but apparently missed this. Thanks!

/Carl



>
> I prefer this:
>
>    defaults write com.freron.MailMate  MmDefaultSearchScope 
> '#commonplus'
>
> That's the "Common Headers or Text" specifier, which means you'll also 
> find mentions of the domain in the body of messages.
>
> Finally, you could modify the default behavior of the "Search" toolbar 
> button instead. Click that and you get a search bar where you can set 
> up any sort of search you like, e.g. "Any Address contains" with an 
> empty search value. To make that search the default, use the menu 
> command Edit->Find->Use As Default Search. The next time you click the 
> Search toolbar button, the search bar will come up with the search you 
> set.

> What about the 'a' modifier, for "Any address header" as listed in the 
> search syntax documentation?


On 15 Jul 2019, at 11:25, Alain Israel wrote:

> This « Search » button seems by default to search within the 
> current mailbox (if I am correct). Is it possible to have it search by 
> default in « All messages »?
>
> The Search box can be made to search « All message subparts », but 
> then you don’t have all the options of the Search button. To be 
> honest I am not sure I use correctly these 2 ways of searching (Search 
> button and Search box). I attach a screenshot of my configuration.
>
> Alain






>>
>> Finally, you could modify the default behavior of the "Search" 
>> toolbar button instead. Click that and you get a search bar where you 
>> can set up any sort of search you like, e.g. "Any Address contains" 
>> with an empty search value. To make that search the default, use the 
>> menu command Edit->Find->Use As Default Search. The next time you 
>> click the Search toolbar button, the search bar will come up with the 
>> search you set.
>>
>> -- 
>> Bill Cole
>> bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
>> (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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