[kdepim-users] Kmail: Search for/List emails within a date/time range?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 03 October 2008, Martin Bernreuther wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there a way in Kmail to search for messages, which were
> received/sent within a certain time range?

Unfortunately, this is not possible with KMail.


> I've looked at  "Search in folders", but only found capabilities to
> search for strings within certain parts of the messages (like
> Subject, FROM, TO...) Within a certain folder there's no problem to
> accomplish the task, since messages can be sorted by date easily.
> If a "Search in folders" with a criteria that gets every message
> (e.g. message size>0) is done first, all the search result messages
> (in the virtual folder) could be sorted by date... But this is not
> efficient and not feasable for a large collection of emails with lots
> of folders!

True, but currently it's your only option for doing it within KMail. 
Searching the local mail storage with command line tools or scripting 
(as you have already considered doing) might be faster.


Regards,
Ingo
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