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There's a big feature missing from Outlook 2011 for the Mac. Okay, a number of big features, including being able to edit server-side rules. But the one that's been affecting me most is the inability to have Smart Folders that have OR clauses.
I subscribe to a number of mailing lists, and what I wanted was for all the messages to those lists to be delivered to subfolders (so they're not in my Inbox), but I wanted to be able to see all the unread messages in all those folders, in one place.
Outlook 2011′s Advanced Search lets you search for unread messages, and search for messages in a combination of folders, but not both.
But all is not lost. Outlook 2011 on the Mac uses Spotlight to index mail, and supports creating queries that are passed right through to the Spotlight query engine. You can access this using Advanced Search in Outlook, and setting the search type to "Raw Query".
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