StartMail offers full text searching within your emails. This means you can simply enter the term you remember from an email and input it as a search term to find it. Please note that this does not apply on encrypted emails, and you can only find those by searching for the sender/recipient or subject title.
How to search?
- Look for the Search Mail field with the magnifying glass icon in the blue bar above your email.
- Enter your search query and press Enter or click on the magnifying glass icon.
- Your search results are shown. It will also show the folder in which it found the email.
- To clear your search term when you want to search again, press the X next to the search term.
Search operators
In case your search query returns too many results, you can use search operators to limit your search results. This allows you to limit your search results to only search within specific folder, or for a specific recipient or subject.
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Index |
Description |
Example |
|---|---|---|
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In |
Folder name containing the message |
In:Inbox |
|
From |
Message sender |
From:Adam |
|
To |
Message recipient listed in the to-header |
To:Ben |
|
CC |
Message recipient listed in the cc-header |
CC:Catherine |
|
BCC |
Message recipient listed in the bcc-header |
BCC:Dave |
|
Date |
Message date header |
Date:2019-02-01 |
|
Subject |
Message subject |
Subject:Dinner |
|
Body |
Message body |
Body:Drinks |
Notes
- When using this function, be sure to leave out a space between the colon (:) and the search term.
- The terminology you need to use for some system folders are different from how they are displayed in the interface. To search through these folders, please refer to the list below.
Trash is called Deleted Messages:in:'deleted messages'
The Sent folder is called Sent Messages:in:'sent messages'
And similar the Spam folder is called Junk:in:'junk'