Re: Kmail regex searches

Henk van Velden <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:13:14 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Organization HenM
Message-ID <12194835.O9o76ZdvQC@boven>
Hi,

Do you have any indication (e.g. in the documentation of Kmail) that Kmail is 
supporting regex in it's search field. That search is typically an end-users 
feature and I doubt that anybody expects that end-users (like your grandma) 
have any idea about regular expressions.

On Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:53:46 CEST Colin Close wrote:
> Hi,
> I wonder if you can help me? I have been trying to clean up a large mail
> collection which has mega quantities of spam. One search that I am trying
> to perform is to search for percentages. The form [0-9][0-9]% does not seem
> to work..the same construct in Thunderbird works fine. I have no
> explanation for this other than maybe in Kmail some characters may need
> escaping. Any help gratefully received.
> 
> Colin Close


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Henk van Velden