Searching with Key Words

If you know where to search for your item, you can enter keywords followed by a colon and search item in the Search field.

Key Word | Description
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content: | Specifies text that the message must contain. For example, content:bananas finds all items containing the word "bananas".
from: | Specifies a sender name or email address that is in the From header. This can be text, as in "John Smith III", an email address such as " joe@acme.com", or a domain such as " zimbra.com".
to: | Same as from: except that it specifies one of the people to whom the email was addressed in the To: header.
cc: | Same as from: except that it specifies a recipient in the Cc: header of the message.
subject: | Specifies text that must appear in the subject header of the message. An example might be subject:new vacation policy.
in: | Specifies a folder. For example, in:sent shows all items in your Sent folder.
has: | Specifies an attribute that the message must have. The types of object you can specify are "attachment", "phone", or " url". For example, has:attachment finds all messages which contain one or more attachments of any type.
filename: | Specifies an attachment file name. For example, filename: query.txt finds messages with a file attachment named "query.txt".
type: | Specifies a search within attachments of a specified type. The types of attachment you can specify are "text", "word", "excel", and " pdf". For example, type:word hello finds messages with attachments that are Microsoft Word documents and searches within those attachments for the word "hello".
attachment: | Specifies any item with a certain type of attachment. For example, attachment:word finds all messages with a Word file attachment. Note: If you did not find an attachment that was written in a non-western language, see Search Issues with Non-Western Language Attachments.
is: | Searches for messages with a certain status. Allowable values are "unread", "read", "flagged", " unflagged", "sent", "draft", "received", "replied", " unreplied", "forwarded", unforwarded", "anywhere", "remote" (in a shared folder), "local", "sent", and "solo" For example, is: unread finds all unread messages. is:solo finds email messages that do not have a reply to them yet. The Status drop-down menu in the advanced filters includes these options.
date: | Use this keyword to specify a date You can use an absolute date (mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/dd/mm) or a relative date (+/- nnnn [hour, day, week, month, year]). Use the format that is default on your browser's locale. For example, US English format date:2/1/2015 finds messages dated February 1, 2015. The greater than symbol (date:>DATE) is the same as after:DATE. The less than symbol (date:>DATE) is the same as the before:Date.
after: | Specifies mail sent after a certain date. For example, after:2/1/2015 specify mail sent after February 1, 2015.
before: | Same as after: except specifies mail sent before the specified date.
size: | Specifies messages whose total size, including attachments, is a specified number of bytes, kilobytes, or megabytes For example, size:12 kb finds messages that are exactly 12K in size. The greater than (>) or less than (<) symbols can be used instead of bigger or smaller.
larger: | Similar to size: except specifies greater than the specified size.
smaller: | Similar to size: except specifies smaller than the specified size.
tag: | Finds messages which have been tagged with a specified tag. For example, tag:amber finds message that have a tag called "amber" applied.

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