[Users] How do I find e-mails containing at least one of multiple strings?

Paul paul at claws-mail.org
Sun Apr 28 10:18:21 UTC 2024


On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 02:50:35 -0700
Rick Deininger <rrdein at gmx.com> wrote: 

> Such a simple task for literally any other mail client, but I cannot
> figure it out with Claws.  There is this doc
> https://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Filtering_and_Processing_of_Messages
> with a question, "Can I filter messages based on Content-Type of
> attachments, for example "application/x-msdownload"?", for which the
> answer begins, "Yes. Select Match Type 'Body part' and enter the Value
> Content-Type: application/x-msdownload." but of course "Body part" is
> not an available Matching option (at least not that I can find), even
> though it is definitely completely obvious that it should be an
> available Matching option.  So of course I am totally lost here on how
> to do this ultra-simple/intuitive thing.  How can I search for e-mails
> (in a specific folder or across multiple folders, I don't care) that
> have either the word "magnanimous" or "antagonistic" (or both)?

It can sometimes be the simple things that confuse us.

Use 'Match criteria' 'Phrase' in 'body part'...

The FAQ is a wiki, go ahead and fix it, Rick.

with regards

Paul


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