E-Mail

5.8. Searching for E-Mails

In order to search for specific E-Mails, you can use the following search criteria:

How to search for E-Mails:

  1. Click on the Search input field. Additional icons are displayed.

  2. Enter a search term in the input field. The search menu opens.

    The search menu

    Define the data sources to be searched by clicking on an entry in the search menu.

    • If clicking on the search term or pressing enter, the following data sources are searched: sender, recipient, subject, E-Mail text

    • In order to only search in the subject, click on in subject.

    • In order to only search in the E-Mail text, click on in mail text.

    • To search within the attachments' file names, click on iin attachment file names.

    • In order to search for senders or recipients matching the search term, click on a name.

      You can define whether to search the sender, recipients or both. To do so, click the Options iconnext to the name.

    • In order to search for E-Mails within a specific time range, use a valid time range as search term. As soon as a valid time range is recognized in your input, the time range is displayed in the search menu. Click on the time frame.

    The search results are displayed in the list that is shown in the display area. For each search result, the folder with the found object is displayed.

  3. To select a folder for the search, click the Options iconin the input field. The current folder will be displayed in a drop-down. To select another folder, open the drop-down.

    • If you select All folders, all folders and subfolders of the internal E-Mail account are searched.

      Note: Depending on the E-Mail server, this function might not be available. In this case, only the current folder will be searched, no subfolders.

    • If you select a specific folder or the folder of an external E-Mail account, only this folder is searched, but no subfolders.

  4. To refine the search result, enter further search terms: To remove a search term, click the Remove iconnext to the search term.

  5. In order to finish the search, click the Close icon in the input field.

Parent topic: E-Mail