Searching Email

After you’ve received multiple messages, you may lose track of all of them. One way to deal with this flood of information is to constantly move messages into their own folders. Since this takes constant effort, you may find it easier just to search for a particular message instead.

You can search for text that appears in the From, To, or Subject fields, or you can search for text that appears in any of those three fields. This lets you search for messages that you received from a specific email address, messages that you sent to a particular email address, messages with certain types of subjects, or all three (the From, To, and Subject fields).

To search for a messages stored in an email account, follow these steps:

  1. While using the ...

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