Searching Mail

Searching Across Messages

Quick Search

In the mail view, you can quickly search for messages by defining conditions.

Click on the search icon to expand the drop-down list.

Select the search condition from the list.

Select the scope from the drop-down list right to the text box.

For the Current Account scope, the term "account" refers to top-level nodes in the mail folder list, like "On this computer" and remote mail accounts.

Enter the text you want to search for and press Enter.

Evolution displays the search results.

If you start directly from the fourth step, text will be searched in mail's subjects and addresses and scope will be "Current folder".

If you search for messages that are not in the same folder rather often you might want to create a search folder instead; see Using Search Folders for more detail.

If you want to set several search conditions, you should use an Advanced search, which is described below.

Advanced Search:

Select the SearchAdvanced Search menu to open the dialog box.

Click Add Condition to add any number of rules.

Select the condition from the dropdown list, and then type a search entry in the field.

Click OK to get the search results displayed.

Clearing the Search results

To clear your search view and get back to the default view, click the Clear icon in the search string field, or choose SearchClear from the menubar. You can also press ShiftCtrlQ to clear the search.

Saved Searches

If you search for something rather often, you will prefer not to type it many times. In this case you can use saved searches.

To save your search results, either click Save instead of OK in the Search dialog, or in case the search results are already displayed, select SearchSave Search. From now on this search will be directly available from the Search menu.

Editing a Saved Search

Select SearchEdit Saved Searches from the menu bar to open the window.

Click the Edit button to open the Edit Rule window.

Edit the title or search conditions from the dialog box.

Click OK.