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Search for messages

The Mail application supports two search modes: Quick search or Advanced search.

Quick search

Quick search allows you to conduct a search with specific keywords in all of your messages. All messages from the different folders that match with your search term will be displayed.

1. Enter your search term into the search box in the left pane.

2. Click . All messages containing the search term will be listed in the search results.

Note

By default, the Quick Search function of the Mail application does not retrieve messages of the Spam and Trash folders. To do Quick Search on these folders, simply select these folders before searching.

Advanced search

The Advanced Search allows you to specify criteria to narrow your search results.

1. Click in the left pane to open the Advanced Search form.

2. Define the search conditions to your details, including:

ConditionFunction
contains Include the term in the search box.
doesn't contain Not include the term in the search box.
is Include exactly the term in the search box.
is not Not include exactly the term in the search box.
starts with Start with the term in the search box.
does not start with Not start with the term in the search box.

3. Click Search to perform your search.