# Searching for Emails

##### Email search criteria:

- search terms for subject, email text, sender, recipients, attachment name
- Search terms for a time range. Searches for emails that you received within the time range. You define a valid time range with the following details.
    
    
    - The key words today, yesterday, last week, last month, last year
    - The key words for those time intervals: last 7 days, last 30 days, last 365 days
    - A day of the week, e.g. Monday
    - A specific month, e.g. July
    - A four digit date, e.g. 2015
    - A date, e.g. 1/31/2015
    - A date interval, e.g. 12/1/2014 - 1/31/2015
- folders that are to be searched
- only search for emails with an attachment

##### Searching for emails:

<div class="task" id="bkmrk-click-on-the-search-"><div class="procedure">1. Click on the <span class="guibutton">**Search**</span> input field. Enter a search term in the input field.
    
    The search menu opens.
    
    
    - If clicking on the search term or pressing enter, the following data sources are searched: sender, recipient, subject, email text
    - In order to only search in the subject, click on <span class="guibutton">**in subject**</span>.
        
        Accordingly, you can limit the search to the email text or to attachment file names.
    - In order to search for senders or recipients matching the search term, click on a name. You can define whether to search the sender, recipients or both. To do so, click on <span class="guibutton">**From**</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="inlinemediaobject" id="bkmrk-">![](https://lawless.cloud/appsuite/help/images/appsuite_user_icon_dropdown.png)</span> next to the name.
    - In order to search for emails within a specific time range, use a valid time range as search term.
2. Define the data sources to be searched by clicking on an entry in the search menu.
    
    
    - The search results are displayed in the list that is shown in the display area. For each search result, the folder with the found object is displayed.
3. To select a folder for the search, click on the folder name next to the input field.
    
    
    - If you select <span class="guibutton">**All folders**</span>, all folders and sub-folders of the internal email account are searched. Note: Depending on the email server, this function might not be available. In this case, only the current folder will be searched, no sub-folders.
    - If you select a specific folder or the folder of an external email account, only this folder is searched, but no sub-folders.
4. To limit the search to E-Mails with an attachment, click on <span class="guibutton">**Options**</span> <span aria-hidden="true" class="inlinemediaobject" id="bkmrk--1">![](https://lawless.cloud/appsuite/help/images/appsuite_user_icon_dropdown.png)</span> next to the input field. Enable <span class="guibutton">**Has attachment**</span>.
5. To refine the search result, enter further search terms: To remove a search term, click the <span class="guibutton">**Remove**</span> icon <span aria-hidden="true" class="inlinemediaobject" id="bkmrk--2">![](https://lawless.cloud/appsuite/help/images/appsuite_user_icon_close.png)</span> next to the search term.
6. In order to finish the search, click the <span class="guibutton">**Cancel search**</span> icon <span aria-hidden="true" class="inlinemediaobject" id="bkmrk--3">![](https://lawless.cloud/appsuite/help/images/appsuite_user_icon_cancelsearch.png)</span> in the input field.

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