Mail searches etc.

[Tony Crockford]

On 1 Feb 2008, at 11:25, Andrew Brown wrote:

> On 1 Feb 2008, at 10:54, Derek Chesterfield wrote:
>
>> It works correctly for me. I did an Entire Message search for 4  
>> february and got 7 hits. Then I added the quotes, and got one hit  
>> (this one, obviously!!).
>
> These are my results:
>
> 4 février = 811 hits
> "4 février" = 644
>
> 4 = 29700
> "4" = 15483
>
> février = 1105
> "février" = 1100
>
> Hardly any of the "4 février" hits have the string "4 février" in  
> them, just a 4 and a février. I have not worked out the difference  
> between the 811 and the 644, or between any of the other figures for  
> that matter...

Assuming this is Tiger?

On Leopard I get 1 result for 4 fevrier, 58 for  4 and 1 for "4 fevrier"

my guess is that tiger does "or" searches  and "search terms" creates  
and "and" search, but not a string search.

in leopard mail.app does "and" searches, with "search terms" creating  
a  string search

/me goes off to seek confirmation