Re: Kmail regex searches

Hi, Yes Kmail has a menu option under the tools > find messages menu that allows one to select matches that fit a regex or select matches that do not match the regex. See attached screenshot.
Incidently I am a proud grandad of 7 grandchildren :) 
Mozilla Thunderbird supports these options.


Best,
Colin Close


On Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:13:14 BST Henk van Velden wrote:
> 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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