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So in order of descending power, available searches for Mail.app run: Spotlight, followed by smart folders/rules, followed by this hint, followed by Mail's search bar. This is more powerful than the hint, but won't achieve for example: "from Bill or from John, with "snuff" in the subject, but not from the "legal drugs" folder". In smart folders (and also rules as it happens), you can either match ALL criteria (AND searches), or you can match ANY criteria (OR searches). If you try to type OR it'll actually search for OR!! They are always AND searches (all messages from John AND Bill, rather than all messages from John and all messages from Bill). In Spotlight you can perform Boolean searches, such as "from:john OR from:bill", but these won't work in Mail.

It's far more limited than Spotlight, and even less advanced than the searches you can set up in smart mailboxes, which are already pretty weak. I'm sorry to say this really isn't advanced at all. (Mail seems unforgiving when no wildcards are used, e.g. For instance, in searching for a message from (John Doe), you can use from:john or from:doe or email:jdoe or email. It seems that the search box is completely mimicking Spotlight, which gives the power of Spotlight searches inside of Mail.Īfter playing with this a bit, it seems that from: will search names, whereas email: will search email address.

to search for all messages that match keyword1 in the entire message that are from some_user and have some_word in the subject.

Keyword1 from:some_user subject:some_word It seems that you can structure searches using fields. I'm not sure if this is common knowledge (a couple of quick searches turned up nothing related) or completely obscure, but Mail.app's search is more advanced than it appears.