Search everything at once
A search for invoice finds messages with that word anywhere: the subject, the sender, or the message itself.
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Search your email by sender, subject, or keyword
Type anything into the search box and press Enter, and Patriot Mail looks through the senders, recipients, subjects, and text of your messages. When that returns more than you wanted, you can tell it which part of a message to look at.
The five prefixes
What each one searches
Write the prefix, then what you are looking for. A space after the colon is fine, so from: alice works the same as from:alice.
from:
Who sent it
from:alice@example.com finds mail from that address. A name works too: from:Alice.
to:
Who received it
to:alice@example.com finds mail addressed to that person, including mail you sent them.
cc:
Who was copied in
cc:alice@example.com finds mail where that person was on copy rather than the main recipient.
subject:
The subject line
subject:invoice finds messages with that word in the subject, ignoring the rest of the message.
body:
The message itself
body:refund finds messages with that word in the text, even when the subject says nothing about it.
Shortcut
Click a sender
Opening a message and clicking the sender's name runs a from: search for you, with nothing to type.
Examples
Putting them together
Anything you type without a prefix is searched across the whole message, so you can mix a prefix with ordinary words.
1
One sender, one subject
from:alice@example.com subject:invoice finds invoices from Alice, and nothing else she sent.
2
A sender and a word
from:alice@example.com overdue finds mail from Alice that mentions "overdue" anywhere.
3
Words that belong together
Put quotation marks around them: subject:"needs review" looks for that exact phrase rather than the two words separately.
Good to know
A few small things
A prefix on its own, with nothing after it, is treated as ordinary text, so searching for from: looks for that word. Capital letters never matter, in the prefix or in what you are looking for. If you name the same prefix twice, only the last one counts.
Searching a single account looks through the mail kept on your provider's servers, so it reaches your whole mailbox rather than only what you have opened recently. The combined "All accounts" view searches the copy saved on this device, where recipients are not stored, so to: and cc: need one account selected in the sidebar.
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