How to search within Apple Mail

[garethmcclay]

Hi - I am new to Alfred & have been trying to figure out HOW to get Alfred to search both files and email documents. I often reference files/emails with a unique identifier - from spotlight I can enter this number & spotlight finds both files & emails, but alfred will only find files (using the in command).

 

In Alfred preferences, I have removed the check from “Don’t Show Emails” but this makes no difference.

 

Do I need to reindex (but this does not makes sense as Spotlight does find these items)

Or is this feature not available?

 

Thanks for any help

[jdfwarrior]

I made a workflow a while back that would allow this but its definitely not really fast. If you can give me a few days I'll try to dig back in to it and see if I can get it running a little faster and a little easier to use

[garethmcclay]

thanks David

[Vero]

Hi - I am new to Alfred & have been trying to figure out HOW to get Alfred to search both files and email documents. I often reference files/emails with a unique identifier - from spotlight I can enter this number & spotlight finds both files & emails, but alfred will only find files (using the in command).

 

Here's a workflow I created yesterday to allow you to search by author, subject line or content:

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/916-mailapp-search-by-author-subject-or-content/