I have recently upgraded to Lion and I am finding a serious inconvenience in its new version of Mail that I'm amazed not to see discussed in forums like this. I guess I must be searching in the wrong place. Help please!
My problem is as follows. I have about 700,000 email messages in my archive, spanning 19 years, and I very often need to search for old mail from someone who has had multiple addresses. In previous versions of Mail, typing such a person's name (or a substring thereof) in the search box and selecting "From" would give me everything they had ever sent me from any address. Now, such a search gives me an autogenerated list of senders, but no way to select more than one of them. There is a nice "Message contains" menu item, and similarly a "Subject contains" (even though there is also an autogenerated list of particular Subjects), but no "Name contains". I am already finding that this is wasting me a lot of time. Am I missing something?
Alternatively, can I roll back to Snow Leopard's Mail within Lion?
My problem is as follows. I have about 700,000 email messages in my archive, spanning 19 years, and I very often need to search for old mail from someone who has had multiple addresses. In previous versions of Mail, typing such a person's name (or a substring thereof) in the search box and selecting "From" would give me everything they had ever sent me from any address. Now, such a search gives me an autogenerated list of senders, but no way to select more than one of them. There is a nice "Message contains" menu item, and similarly a "Subject contains" (even though there is also an autogenerated list of particular Subjects), but no "Name contains". I am already finding that this is wasting me a lot of time. Am I missing something?
Alternatively, can I roll back to Snow Leopard's Mail within Lion?
