You can customize the menu of places to search, too, showing just what you want to see. You can specify anywhere to search, not just the current folder or the whole Mac, as with Finder searches.You can set an item count limit on matches, so you never see a massive list of matches.But I find it nicer to work in HoudahSpot, for a few reasons… You can do this in Spotlight Finder searches, of course. Where HoudahSpot shines is in its ability to build more complex search queries.Īs a simple example, I can get rid of the non-email matches in the above search by creating an "all" group that adds the condition that the match must also be an email message: Using HoudahSpot for a search like this, though, is really overkill-I'd see similar results in Spotlight, because it's a very specific search term that's not going to find a lot of matches. Here's how it looked for the same search that failed in Mail: Houdah's UI is a large multi-paned window, with search criteria on the left, results in the middle, and one of file info, Quick Look preview, or text preview in the right-hand pane. That app is HoudahSpot, and it's what I use to not only search Mail, but any time I need a more-powerful search than I can get through Spotlight's interface. I pointed out that I can use Spotlight, but also alluded to a third-party app. As I lamented in a recent entry here, macOS Mail search is totally broken for me.
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