Subject | Re: The Most Advanced OS of the World... |
From | Alan Baker |
Date | 05/03/2013 18:39 (05/03/2013 09:39) |
Message-ID | <alangbaker-B3B557.09395803052013@news.shawcable.net> |
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Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
Follows | Laszlo Lebrun |
Followups | Laszlo Lebrun (1h & 22m) > Alan Baker |
Laszlo LebrunImagine that: the application gains new and better features with the passage of time. And using the Search box is quite intuitive to those who use Macs, Laszlo. Since it is in virtually every application that can display multiple items, be they emails, files, pages, one quickly learns that the advanced searching in Mac OS X is something you should at least try.
On 5/3/13 1:09 PM, Alan Baker wrote:Alan BakerLaszlo Lebrun
In article <klvk32$7tq$1@tota-refugium.de>, Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@laszlomail.com>wrote:Laszlo LebrunAlan Baker
On 5/3/13 2:53 AM, Alan Baker wrote:Alan BakerLaszlo Lebrun
In article <kls1ld$bpt$1@tota-refugium.de>, Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@laszlomail.com>wrote:Laszlo LebrunAlan Baker
On 5/1/13 10:46 PM, Alan Baker wrote:Alan BakerLaszlo Lebrun
In article <klruke$21u$1@tota-refugium.de>, Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@laszlomail.com>wrote:Laszlo LebrunAlan Baker
On 05/01/2013 10:25 PM, Alan Baker wrote:Alan BakerHmm that was not my wordings... just picked up from unsatisfied Mac users.
In article <klrtfd$tsa$1@tota-refugium.de>, Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@laszlomail.com>wrote:Laszlo Lebrun
...won't come with OSX 10.9 neither.
The wish-list ist long: "Let's hope iOS Mail gets some long overdue features like smart folders. The inability to filter the view for unread messages is ridiculous in a 6th generation mail app."
You're the one who conflated (go ahead and look it up) Mac OS X and iOS...
I'm not in the shoes of the OP, don't know if he really meant iOS or OSX. I did not spend a lot of time with Mail, but "The inability to filter the view for unread messages is ridiculous in a 6th generation mail app." seems to apply to OSX Mail, don't it?
No. Because I know for a fact that Mac OS X Mail has that capability.
You chose who to quote, Laszlo.
Just out of slight curiosity: would you mind to explain how to filter unread? You are the guy pretending one should substantiate each claim.
Sure.
I type a "u" in the search box "u" and a pop-up menu appears with a list of choices, but the list is a little long, so I type an "n" followed "rea" at which point the pop-up menu contains these choices:
' Message contains "unrea"' '-------------------------' 'Mailboxes' ' Unread Mail' '-------------------------' 'Status' ' Message is Unread'
Both the "Mailboxes" and the "Status" are grey text which cannot be selected, so I type two down arrows and my messages are filtered to only those that are unread.
Thank you Alan, that did not work as you described with Version 4.2 (1078), as searching for "unrea" does not display any of the 32 messages yet unread, although "Inbox" & "Entire Message" were selected. *Even if it worked that way: how unintuitive it were!*
But upon that try, the search displays now a button "Save", where the search term is passed as the name of a new smart folder, for which a filtering on "Message is Unread" can be chosen from the matching criterias. Finally yes, you can get it to some extend.Again: software is improved with successive versions. This is unsurprising.
The sort on status does not sort unread, as of Version 4.2.
On pretty much every other decent Mail software, you just select -as expected- "unread" in the view menu and it will filter the read messages right out of the original folders. Finito!And in Mac Mail 5.3 (my version) it's also on the menu:
Finally & to add to a totally perfect confusion: from the menu, the "smart folders" are called "smart mailboxes"?In what way is that confusion? Where are they called anything else?
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