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    <desc>Searching messages.</desc>
    
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    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Max Vorobuov</name>
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    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
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      <name its:translate="no">Novell, Inc</name>
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<title>Searching Mail</title>

<section id="search-single">
<title>Searching in a Single Message</title>
<p>To find text in the displayed message, select <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Find in Message…</gui></guiseq> from the main menu.</p>
</section>

<section id="search-many">
<title>Searching Across Messages</title>

<section id="quick-search">
<title>Quick Search</title>
<p>In the mail view, you can quickly search for messages by defining conditions.</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Click on the search icon <media type="image" mime="image/png" its:translate="no" src="figures/search-icon.png"/> to expand the drop-down list.</p></item>
<item><p>Select the search condition from the list.</p>
<note style="tip"><p>Some searches might be slow on remote mail accounts (e.g. IMAP+). If you select a search condition like <gui>Body contains</gui> or <gui>Message contains</gui> and <app>Evolution</app> is in online mode and the folder(s) you are about to search in are not <link xref="mail-working-offline">already copied locally for offline usage</link>, Evolution automatically runs the search on the mail server side if the server advertises support for server-side searches. When doing a search on search criteria already locally available (e.g. recipients or subject of messages), the search will be run locally.</p></note>
<note style="tip"><p>Advanced users can <link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550796#c10">combine numerous conditions by using the <gui>Free form expression</gui> syntax</link>.</p></note>
</item>
<item><p>Select the scope from the drop-down list right to the text box.</p>
<note style="tip"><p>For the <gui>Current Account</gui> scope, the term "account" refers to top-level nodes in the <link xref="intro-main-window#e-mail"> mail folder list</link>, like "On this computer" and remote mail accounts.</p></note>
</item>
<item><p>Enter the text you want to search for and press <key>Enter</key>.</p></item>
<item><p><app>Evolution</app> displays the search results.</p></item>
</steps>
<note style="tip"><p>If you start directly from the fourth step, text will be searched in mail's subjects and addresses and scope will be "Current folder".</p></note>
<note style="tip"><p>If you search for messages that are not in the same folder rather often you might want to create a search folder instead; see <link xref="mail-search-folders">Using Search Folders</link> for more detail.</p></note>
<p>If you want to set several search conditions, you should use an Advanced search, which is described below.</p>
</section>

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