Rocketbox: fast and powerful search in Apple Mail

Mail.app - a simple and convenient e-mail client. By view as some geeks who like "poprogrammirovat", it was created for home users and, in fact, a little something and know how.

Third-party developers are not the first year on their own "dopilivat» Apple Mail, releasing plugins.

Among the most famous plug-ins include:

• Herald. He adds notifications feature of new messages.
• Mail Act-On. It allows for a given combination of hot keys to perform some action - to apply a rule to move the message to a folder, add a keyword, etc.
• Letterbox. With this plug-in Apple Mail, you can run in a special mode - with three columns. This way of working makes it possible to take advantage of widescreen monitors.

A good chance to get into the list of recommended plugins for Mail.app also have Rocketbox. Its developers have tried to solve one problem: to search in Apple Mail convenient.

two ways to improve the default mailer was chosen: increasing speed and providing new opportunities.

If you believe the plugin author, the speed compared with its own search Mail.app has increased 200 times. I specifically pumped from Gmail about 5000 messages, the apparent acceleration could not see. It is possible that the effectiveness of Rocketbox becomes noticeable on large volumes of correspondence.

In addition to the emphasis placed on the speed of the more powerful and efficient search. You can search for specific words, phrases, specify the search area (subject, message body, the fields «to», «cc» and etc.), use the Boolean operators (body: »President» AND Tymoshenko Yanukovych OR NOT Medvedev) and the mask (*, ?).

After receiving the search results, you can filter. For example, to restrict only one mail account, or select only those messages that have attachments, flagged, had been received for a certain period of time. There arises such feature as "a search in the search results," but it yet. Probably it will be the next version of the plugin.

It's obvious that RocketBox It is not for everyone. most users will be enough Mail.app standard functionality or web-based email services. But if you are using Apple Mail, working with a large volume of correspondence, and you often have to search for letters, then pay attention to this plug.