8-1. Find
Magellan
can find in current view, all mails, and current message.
Select 'Find' from the file menu first, then enter keyword, select
Target and Time span.
You can use any languages on Find however, one keyword should
be any single language.
8-2. View search (Find in current view)
To find in current view, click the Find button in the Mail manager
window and type keyword. Then the found word is selected in the
e-mail body.
Select Find next in the Mail menu, and next matched word will
be shown successively.
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8-3. Whole search
You can widen the extent of Finding by selecting the 'all mails' in the Target.
As the find result will be saved temporarily, you can easily find again opening the Result view and changing the target or other conditions.
The result View will be lost when the Mail Manager window is closed or you delete the View.
Double-click the icon of Result View, and the Find window will open again in which you can change conditions.
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8-4. Find in current message
You can also find in the e-mail body in the Received/Sent mail window.
Select Find from the Mail menu while the Mail window is opened.
Type the keyword and click the find button.
If there are matched word, it will be selected.
Select Find next from the Mail menu, and successive matched word will be selected.
8-5. Index search
If you are using Magellan on MacOS 9.0 or newer, Magellan can find by Index search using Sherlock's Find By contents (FBC) feature. This Index search function is faster than other search. To use this function, you have to install Magellan Extractor in your system folder and create index of your mail messages.
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To search indexed mails, click the Find button and select Index search. You can search faster in your mails. Search result can be saved in the View list.
8-5-1. About Indexing
Even you use application Finder indexing, you have to update Magellan's index separately for Magellan's index search, because Finder does not update index of Magellan. It is strongly recommended to make index of your email by application Magellan using Sherlock index function.
How to make index
Select Sherlock index from Mail menu. The first time you use this function, select either of Rebuild or update button. Magellan builds complete index of your entire mails.
It takes considerable time. (i.e. about 3 hours/5000 mails)
Click Update button next time. Magellan updates index of new mails. It is recommended to update button periodically.
8-5-2. About Sherlock Index
Sherlock creates an index of your disk to search for contents. You can search in any language. For more information, see Mac help of the Finder.
If you cannot get appropriate search result, try another keyword. Indefinite and definite article cannot be search keyword. Sherlock searches all files in your drive, not only Magellan mail messages. It may take considerable time.
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