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multi-field search, use message finder to search for items in specific message fields
 
#1
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Hello all!

Is there a simple and straightforward way of convincing message finder to search for messages (for example) that:
- are from 'john' (sender field contains 'john')
and
- subject contains 'books'
and
- body contains 'something'
etc.

I've tried various things with regexps but no good result.

Thanks,
jonel
 
 
 
#2
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hello jonel,

you can do that pretty easy.

first you should search for john in the senders field.

when the search has finished change from results to options again and click on "look in" subject.
now search for the subject.

if that search is finished do the same step again and tell the bat to look in the results for something in the body.

that we only the mails you are looking for are left over.

please tell me if that helped or if i misunderstood your question.

regrads

moongate  
 
 
 
#3
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Thanks for the reply, but it didn't help (I think I have tried something like this a very long time ago..)

The problem is that the second search is not performed only on the results of the first one as you imply. The whole folder is considered for the second search, so it ends up finding a lot of messages containing 'books' in the subject, but not only from 'john' as I would want..

jonel
 
 
 
#4
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The missing link is that once you have performed one search, the "Look in" drop down now includes "Found messages" as an option.  :D  
iviarck
 
 
 
#5
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Aye, that would indeed solve my problem, except I don't see that option besides the folders in the 'Look in folder(s)' list (in v2.0 and 3.0).

What version do I need for that?

Thanks for your help,
jonel
 
 
 
#6
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I don't recall if it was in V2. You do have to have completed the first search for it to appear as an option.
iviarck
 
 
 
#7
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Marck,

I have completed a first search (searched messages from john for example), yet there's still no such option in the 'Look in folder(s)' list.

On the other hand, I've acomplished this using regexps:
(?im)^from.*john.*$|^subject.*books.*$

The logical OR is not of much help - is there a way to say AND in the regexps? I noticed that as soon as I enable regexp search, '&' doesn't mean AND any more..
(besides searches taking considerable more resources, to the point of crashing/hanging TheBat!)

Thanks,
jonel
 
 
 
#8
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Well, what's this then: ;)

Screen shot of search

Using v 3.0.1.33 this is clearly visible once you have completed a search and found some records.  
iviarck
 
 
 
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