re: My personal "workaround" is to not move any Sent messages, can't imagine why I'd want to.
Heavens no! I'm simply filing completed conversations from the inbox which I use as a task list. In most (albeit not all) cases when I move the conversation into a folder the hidden 'sent' label gets crushed. Really a very natural thing to do. I raised this before but another voice stated they didn't want to see messages in the 'sent' folder once moved into a storage folder. To me 'sent' and 'all mail' are parallel views of existing folder trees. It should not be an either/or decision. I think there is a perception I am doing weird/wacky things that are one-offs of how real people manage their mail. Really not the case but whatever ...
Being that "another voice", I would chime in.
I don't know if your work flow is "one off" or not. (Actually, I suspect not that many people do like you do.) But in any case, I don't think you are doing something wrong. It is your work flow, - and you are trying to adapt the tools you are using to it. I understand that.
Unfortunately, the "standard" general-IMAP-based tools, such as Aquamail, are not designed to deal with Gmail peculiarities that you are used to rely on.
I perfectly understand your need to move messages from "Sent" to a specific folder with the rest of the conversation. I frequently do that too. And I do not understand why Kostya "can't imagine why I'd want to":
My personal "workaround" is to not move any Sent messages, can't imagine why I'd want to.
So, in that regard, I think Kostya is wierd.
Moreover, I think everybody who uses Aquamail not the way
I do is weird and wacky.
In any case, I appreciate your reasonable attitude that includes listening to other opinions even when you disagree with them.
Now, back to your original question about the search (I understand how that would help in your workaround). Please, excuse my getting in the middle of the conversation, - but it seems to me that Kostya may have missed the actual problem you experience:
I do have a late request: any chance 'search headers' can be tweaked to handle sender email address (From: name <email>), specifically my email? At present it returns no results. If I switch to a full text search I get items I sent plus any forwards and replies that contain the target string.
From Kostya's post about headers search implementation, it looks like the header search
should look for the "From:" field, but you are saying in your case it is not finding messages with you as the sender.
At first, that sounds strange. On another hand, the search for all sender/recipient headers for your address should return
all messages, except those where your address was originally and Bcc:, and hence wouldn't show up at all, except for "Received" headers (which are not searched).
I just checked, - and seems to work in my case: it is not just the "From:"
So, I see two ways how the fact that you don't get anything found can be explained:
1. you are making some typo.
2. the header search is not working on your server
3. Aquamail doesn't like
You and
Your e-mail address.
I'd suggest you to try searching for some other, more simple header that is definitely there. (Try just the "user" portion of user@domain)
However, it seems to me that even if this search worked for you, it wouldn't help you, as it should find messages sent to you as well, as explained above.
PS. Oops...
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Sorry, I have to go now, and don't have time to review, - so I'll leave the post as is.... even though all of this might have been discussed.
