How do I search Apple Mail (10.11) for a message containing text and from certain people or other criteria.
If I enter a search term I can see messages as search results, but I can't see any other way to add additional criteria, like "from contains", "date after", "has attachment", etc. I can start typing an email address or name in the search box and get the "From" criteria, but it's limited, I can't do this after I enter a search term, nor can I select other criteria like from "contains" certain text.
This functionality is all available in Smart Mailbox but it seems stupid to create a Smart Mailbox for single search. Thunderbird is much better at this.
Best Answer
One can continue to type search terms into the search field.
For example, I want to find any email from yesterday that has an attachment.
One can refine the found set by continuing to type in the search field. Not the greatest, and takes a bit of experimenting but better than making a whole Smart Folder just for the odd query.
For example: Messages from Ken White that have attachments.
From here you can continue to narrow the search. I will take some experimentation, but you should be able to find what you need without creating a smart folder.