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Product Guide
Mac OS X Tiger
Mail
Mail uses the power of Spotlight for faster, more accurate searching. You can quickly
search through all of your messages and use new Smart Mailboxes to organize your
mail automatically.
You can create a Smart Mailbox by saving your search in Mail or by selecting New
Smart Mailbox in the Mail menu and describing the search criteria. When you open
a Smart Mailbox, Spotlight gathers related messages from all of your mailboxes into
one mailbox. As you receive new mail messages that match the search criteria (such
as keyword, date, author, subject line, and content), your Smart Mailbox automatically
updates. Like Smart Folders, Smart Mailboxes can contain messages from multiple
mailboxes, without moving the messages from the mailboxes in which you stored
them originally.
Address Book
With Spotlight, the contact information you store in Address Book becomes even
more useful. You can use Spotlight to create Smart Groups that update automatically.
Click the Action button in Address Book to perform a Spotlight search on the selected
contact that quickly finds everything on your computer related to that person.
System Preferences
The System Preferences application in Tiger replaces the icon bar with a Spotlight
search field—an easy starting point for finding what you’re looking for. It’s even smart
enough to include system terms with which a Windows user might be more familiar,
such as wallpaper or WiFi.
In System Preferences, Spotlight provides visual cues as you search, identifying the
preferences where you might find the settings you need.
Smart Mailbox examples
Dynamic Smart Mailboxes enable you to
organize your email using a wide selection
of search criteria. For example, you can
search for:
• All mail messages from a particular person
• All mail messages to or from any employee
at your company
• All mail messages you’ve received today
• All mail messages about a particular topic
Metadata index
When you start up Tiger for the first time,
Spotlight indexes your hard drive, importing
the metadata that already exists in all the
files on your computer into its metadata
index and creating an index of the content
in your text documents. The amount of time
this first-time indexing takes depends on the
number and size of files on your drive, but
for most users it shouldn’t take more than
30 minutes. Of course, you can use your com-
puter while Spotlight indexes your hard drive.