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=More Complex Searches= | =More Complex Searches= | ||
Thunderbird lets you do more complicated searches in the `Search Messages' window. This window is accessible through the Edit > Find > Search Messages... menu item. | Thunderbird lets you do more complicated searches in the `Search Messages' window. This window is accessible through the Edit > Find > Search Messages... menu item. (To quit the search window, click the window's close button, press Ctrl+W, or press Esc.) | ||
==Specifying Location== | ==Specifying Location== | ||
You can search for a message in any folder of any account, but only one account at a time. | |||
In the `Search Messages' window, the first thing you specify is where to search. In the `Search for messages in:' list, select the account (and folder, if any) to search in. Say you have an account called `mail.isp.net' and you want to search the Inbox. You drop down the list, move the mouse over the account name, then click on `Inbox' when the folder list appears as a sublist of the account list. If you want to search the entire account, you click on `choose this folder' from the sublist. | In the `Search Messages' window, the first thing you specify is where to search. In the `Search for messages in:' list, select the account (and folder, if any) to search in. Say you have an account called `mail.isp.net' and you want to search the Inbox. You drop down the list, move the mouse over the account name, then click on `Inbox' when the folder list appears as a sublist of the account list. If you want to search the entire account, you click on `choose this folder' from the sublist. | ||
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: You want to match all messages which are 6 days old. You select `Age In Days' in the first drop-down list, `is' in the second, and type `6' in the third column box. | : You want to match all messages which are 6 days old. You select `Age In Days' in the first drop-down list, `is' in the second, and type `6' in the third column box. | ||
===Multiple Criteria=== | |||
When you set up more than one criterion, you have the choice of matching all the criteria, or any of them. For example, if you specify the criteria `must be 6 days old' and `sender must contain the name "dave" ' then you can make it so that the search is for messages which are 6 days old ''and'' from `dave', ''or'' you can have it so that messages which are 6 days old ''or'' from `dave' will show up. | |||
==Results== | ==Results== | ||
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The `Clear' button right below the `Search' button wipes out all the criteria and gives you a brand new search. | The `Clear' button right below the `Search' button wipes out all the criteria and gives you a brand new search. | ||