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Webmail Tutorial - Searching
With the Search tool, you can search through a specific folder for given criteria that match against different header fields. To Search, you simply choose the folder you wish to search, type in the search criteria, and then choose the part of the message to search. You'll notice that when you are reading messages and then go into the search section, your currently active folder will be the default to search through. For example, if you were browsing through your "Pictures" folder, and then click on Search, "Pictures" will already be selected for searching.
To the left of the input field, you see a drop down list of places that are possible to search through:
- Body – Searches the body of the message. This is the main part of the message.
- Everywhere – This searches everything, including the entire header of the message. This isn't the best method of searching since it checks EVERYTHING, and can return results that you may not normally expect.
- Subject – Searches through the subjects for messages.
- From – Who the message is from. Not that this might be more than is actually displayed in the folder list. A normal "From" field includes the name AND email address, but Webmail usually only displays the name. If your criteria matches the email address, but it is not displayed, that message will still return as having matched.
- To – Searches the To field. This is not always just one email address – it can be many.
- Cc – Same as To, except it checks the Cc: fields.
After webmail is finished searching, just click the subject of the message to view it.
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