[OSX-Users] searching Apple mail on Mac??
m.c. schraefel
mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Nov 28 09:23:01 GMT 2016
AH
I thought that’s what Postbox has become?
May try it again…
mc
> On 28 Nov 2016, at 09:17, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Personally I wouldn't use anything but Thunderbird.
> Talks IMAP+SMTP to the world, and has lots of add-ons available.
> (I use "Display Mail User Agent", "Mail Redirect", "Mailbox Alert" and "QuoteCollapse".)
>
> The only thing it doesn't do well is automatically handle calendar invitations with iCloud calendars. I *believe* that bit works with Exchange calendars, but I don't personally use them. It does display all calendar invitations very nicely though, so you know exactly what to put in your calendar.
>
> I have multiple accounts, multiple identities in each account, multiple (ever-changing) signatures in each account/identity, and at least 30 "favourite" folders at any time, where I only want to see the favourites but be able to get to others fairly easily.
>
> Jules.
>
> On 28/11/2016 09:07, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>> Thanks
>> Will give that a try.
>> If not mail app what?
>> mc
>>> On 28 Nov 2016, at 09:06, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> See this:
>>> http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476217/mac-os-x/mac-os-x-how-to-fix-apple-mail-by-rebuilding-and-reindexing-the-mailbox.html
>>> Assuming you've already done Step 1, give Step 2 a go as well. That's helped me in the past (when I used Mail.app).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jules.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28/11/2016 08:52, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>>>> Dear all
>>>> Since updating to Sierra, search in mail has been really poor:
>>>> Looking for mail I KNOW is there (in fact I’m looking right at it) - I search for a person’s name - and the mail from that person isn’t coming in.
>>>> I’ve done “rebuild” on the mailbox to no avail.
>>>>
>>>> Suggestions??
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> m.c.
>>> Jules
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
>>> email+iMessage: Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>> Twitter: @JulesFM
>>>
>>> Senior Tutor, Electronics and Computer Science
>>> Teaching Systems Manager, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
>>> University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
>>>
>>> 'Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds
>>> us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from
>>> us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see
>>> ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.'
>>> - Arthur Golden
>>>
>>
>
> Jules
>
> --
> Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
> email+iMessage: Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Twitter: @JulesFM
>
> Senior Tutor, Electronics and Computer Science
> Teaching Systems Manager, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
> University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
>
> 'Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds
> us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from
> us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see
> ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.'
> - Arthur Golden
>
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