Searching email
You can search your email in different ways by entering various search criteria.
About this task
Details about search capabilities are provided in the Email search criteria help topic.
Procedure
- Navigate to Mail.
- Enter a search string in the field next to Preferences. There is no limit for the total length of the search string. Each individual keyword in the search string has a maximum length of 255 characters.
- Select the search icon next to the search string field. All folders, except the Spam and Trash folders, are searched for the contents of your search string, and the results are displayed on one page.
- To search the Spam or Trash folder, select the Spam or Trash folder and enter search criteria in the search field. Only the folder that you selected is searched. Search 'Spam' or Search 'Trash' is displayed in the search field before you enter your search criteria.
Results
The search function returns a list of all email that is matched by the search query. If no email messages are matched, No messages matched your search is displayed.
What to do next
By default, email search results are sorted by date in descending order. You can specify either the Sender, Subject, or Date field to use for the sort.
To
change how search results are ordered:
- Select the icon next to the Sender, Subject, or Date field. The icon that you select specifies the field to be used for sorting search results.
- For the field you specified, you can sort in ascending order or descending order by selecting the icons next to that field.