From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: marcus-sup@bar-coded.net (Marcus Williams)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:55:40 +0100
Subject: [sup-talk] Some comments on sup-0.6
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Message-ID: <1219697254-sup-546@tomsk>

On 24.8.2008, barton.schaefer wrote:
> There's either no on-screen help for how one builds up a search
> expression, or it's simply too hard to find that help, and in
> particular it wasn't obvious how one searches for all messages having
> a certain label (I was expecting maybe something like gmail's
> label:Xyz syntax).

Off the top of my head, some search expressions that are possible in
sup:

From/to/subject searches:

from:email at domain.tld
to:email at domain.tld
subject:*wildcards*

... wildcards are useful in from/to/cc searches as well "from:will*"

Date searches:

on:(16th feb)
before:yesterday
after:(last friday)
during:(last week)

(note that because search results are returned as threads you can get
messages outside of your date bounds because the thread containing the
searched message may have messages outside the bounds if that makes
sense).

Attachments:

has:attachment  (attachment is a label)
filetype:xls
filename:thisisafilename.txt

(Use brackets to specify a filename with spaces)

Labels:

is:read
is:spam
is:deleted
has:somelabel
label:someotherlabel

Phrases are treated as searches on the body text. Combinations work
and are treated as conjunctions/ands as far as I'm aware.

Hope that helps,

Marcus