Search entire message (Apple Mail style)

Using "Common Headers and Body" in conjunction with "Use as Default Search" is satisfactory. Fine to leave this ticket as resolved. Thanks!

See also ticket 67

This should be fixed so it actually searches the whole message. It is very frequent for people to answer questions in emails by quoting the question, then answering it. As it is, if I search for my questions using the "Common Headers And Body" feature, the emails in which they are answered do not appear in the search results. (I was motivated to sign up for an account just to leave this comment, as I just lost quite a bit of time over this issue, hunting for an email I knew was there but which wasn't showing in the results.)

I understand now that I have to search using both "Common Headers And Body" AND "Quoted Text" to find every email that contains a given string in it's body. But why should I have to do that? I've never before seen a search feature, in any program, that makes you search two different ways to find one thing.

As an email user, I'm not interested in the specifics of quoted or unquoted text. When I search for something, I want to the search results to display all matching emails, not dither over whether or not to show emails because of how it happens to be formatted within the message.

Thanks.

I get your point, but personally I consider it a feature that only unquoted text is matched. This is particularly useful when trying to find any original messages mentioning something instead of any number of messages in the same threads.

I would like to find a solution which would make both kinds of searches possible and make it more obvious what is done or not done. I'll think about this. Thanks for the feedback.

Hey, sorry about resurrecting this thread.

I just stumbled upon this behaviour. I like the fact that it's possible to distinguish between search for unquoted and quoted body text.

However, I couldn't find an easy way to search for both in the current MailMate version.

How can I combine the keywords q and b?

Let's say I want to search for two words in all of my mailboxes. In Apple Mail I would just type into the search field:

word1 word2

Apple Mail would then search in subjects, names, addresses and bodies for occurrences. For example, in the results there would be mails which have word1 in the subject an word2 in the body text, irrespective of the question if the word was in a quoted or unquoted part of the body.

How would I do this in MailMate?