Surgeweb end user help.
SurgeWeb has two slightly different forms of labels with comparitive advantages as below:
Should be used for labels you use frequently and may want to change on multiple messages. This uses IMAP user flags to store the labels.
Only use if you need more than 22 labels or imap user flags cannot be enabled. Avoid using these on large messages. This stores the label as an additional header in your IMAP message. This requires surgeweb to modify and re-upload your email message to the server.
Labels can be added and removed from messages as much as you like. However for both types of labels once the label has been created it cannot be deleted (for implementation reasons). You can however rename the display name or hide labels from display.
Both labelling mechanisms should work across surgemail mirrorred servers.
SurgeWeb has three different ways of searching for messages
This is a 'search as you type' browser side 'full text match only' search of the displayed headers of the current
page of messages. This is useful for quickly locating certain messages without waiting for the delay involved in going
to the server for more advanced searches.
Note: This will not search message bodies or other pages of messages in the currently displayed folder (see hint below)
Full text match only: | |
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joe | All messages with the word 'joe' in any of the cached headers |
joe blogs | All messages with the string 'joe blogs' in any of the cached headers |
HINT: When Enter is pressed a "quick search" will be automatically switched to a "folder search" under certain conditions. In particular: if there are multiple pages of messages in a folder, if advanced search syntax characters are found (colon or minus or double quote), or control-enter is pressed.
This is a very fast server side headers search of all the messages in one or more folders.
This search capability allows for the search for multiple search terms that are 'ANDed' together and allows for searching in
in specific fields:
Note: This will not search message bodies, and only searches messages in folders that have already been accessed and indexed by surgeweb (manually refresh by right clicking a folder and select refresh or refresh all)
Basic text searches: | |
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joe | All messages with the word 'joe' in any of the cached headers |
joe blogs | All messages with the word 'joe' AND 'blogs' in any of the cached headers |
joe blogs -foobar | All messages with the word 'joe' AND 'blogs' EXCLUDING 'foobar' in any of the cached headers |
"joe blogs" | All messages with the string 'joe blogs' in any of the cached headers |
from:"joe blogs" | All messages with the string 'joe blogs' in the from header |
Specific field searches: | |
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email:joe@domain | All messages with 'joe@domain' in any of the recipient fields ie. a "conversation history" |
from:marijn@netwin | All messages with 'marijn@netwin' in from address |
to:joe | All messages with 'joe' in to address |
subject:webmail | All messages with 'webmail' in the subject ie. a "thread view" |
date:week | All messages received in the last week valid values: day, week, month |
flags:replied | All messages that have been replied to valid values: seen, replied |
attachments:any | All messages with attachments valid values: any, true, none, false |
More complex searches: | |
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from:marijn@netwin date:week | |
All messages from 'marijn@netwin' in the last week | |
subject:webmail -date:week | |
Messages with the word 'webmail' in subject older than one week | |
from:joe subject:webmail | |
Messages from 'joe' with the word 'webmail' in the subject | |
-flags:replied -date:week | |
Messages older than one week that have not been replied to |
note: The "Recent" option only searches folders that have been accessed in the last month. The "All" option will search all folders but does not refresh the mesage indexes from IMAP so may not find the message you are looking for. Click any folders in question to refresh the indexes.
IMAP serverside search of the full message body and headers content. This can take a long time on large folders / or large accounts - expect approx 30 seconds per 100 MB of mail that needs to be searched through.
One or more search terms can be specified which will be ANDed together.
Note: This may take a long time
Body search syntax: | |
joe | All messages with the word 'joe' anywhere in the message |
joe blogs | All messages with the word 'joe' AND 'blogs' anywhere in the message |
"joe blogs" | All messages with the string 'joe blogs' anywhere in the message |
SurgeWeb uses the surgemail user.cgi Friends and spam handling features. Manually correcting false positives and training messages as spam can be done using
the following actions in SurgeWeb or in an IMAP client:
Action | *** subject marking | Move to | notspam train | isspam train | Contacts add | Friends whitelist | Address blocklist | |
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SurgeWeb - Buttons on messages having received high spam rating: (single message only) | ||||||||
Press "Spam" button | Spam | Train | Remove | |||||
Press "Not Spam" button | Cleaned | Train | Add | Add | ||||
Press "Allow Once" button | Cleaned | |||||||
Press "Block Forever" button | Spam | Remove | Add | |||||
Press "Spam" button | deleted | Train | Remove | |||||
Press "Not Spam" button | Cleaned | INBOX | Train | Add | Add | |||
Press "Allow Once" button | Cleaned | INBOX | ||||||
Press "Block Forever" button | deleted | Remove | Add | |||||
SurgeWeb - "More Actions" menu action: (one or more messages) | ||||||||
"Spam" whilst in any folder other than Spam | Spam | Train | Remove | |||||
"Not Spam" whilst in any folder other than Spam | Cleaned | Train | Add | Add | ||||
"Spam" whilst in Spam folder | deleted | Train | Remove | |||||
"Not Spam" whilst in Spam folder | Cleaned | INBOX | Train | Add | Add | |||
SurgeWeb - Drag and drop / copy / move: (one or more messages) IMAP copy / move: (one or more messages) note: depends on g_imap_spam_train, g_imap_friends settings | ||||||||
from any folder to Spam folder | Spam | Train | Remove | |||||
from Spam folder to INBOX | Cleaned | INBOX | Train | Add | ||||
from Spam folder to other folder | no special spam handling actions taken |
Primary action | actioned in INBOX or other folder | actioned in Spam folder |