The problem seems to be substring searching, which I guess isn't something I've ever tried to use. I tend to think of the gmail search as being fairly powerful

The problem seems to be substring searching, which I guess isn't something I've ever tried to use. I tend to think of the gmail search as being fairly powerful and much faster than my usual mail client (Mail.app), it's one of the few reasons I ever use the gmail web interface. If anyone is curious, the docs are here http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... (I had never bothered to look them up until now).