Searching email archive and other items in library

[pwg]

I can import mail messages without trouble but no matter what approach I take to importing them, they seem to end up in 'mail box' files in EF. I can open the file and search through the messages in the file.

But if I have other items in the EF library (some PDFs, say) I can't seem to search across BOTH the PDFs and mail messages. For example: what are all the references either in my emails or in the PDF documents to 'Tolstoy'? I can find all the references in the documents. But nothing in the emails unless I search specifically inside the mail box file.

Am I doing something wrong here? Isn't EF supposed to search across all files in the library?

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Sorry... just saw this thread that seems to suggest that the 'search into mailbox' function would come in Version 1.1. Is this still on the list of 'to dos'?

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Peter

[Michael Tsai]

Sorry... just saw this thread that seems to suggest that the 'search into mailbox' function would come in Version 1.1. Is this still on the list of 'to dos'?

I believe that thread is referring to the Show > Messages in Tag Sources feature that was added in 1.1. This allows you to, for example, click on "unread" in the source list and view/search all the unread files and e-mail messages. A feature to easily search everything at once is on my to-do list. At present, you can do this by selecting the library and all the mailboxes in the source list.

[Michael Tsai]

A feature to easily search everything at once is on my to-do list.

EagleFiler 1.1.4 added a Show > Messages in Library Source option that lets you search the entire contents of the library when the Library source is selected.