Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For…

January 17th, 2007

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OK, I promise this will be my last time to use a song lyric as a metaphor for a Blog title, but I find it fitting in this case. If you’re having difficulty finding things in your Mailbox, then read on.

Searching in Yahoo! Mail Beta
Using the handy search tool lets you find items quickly, especially if you have hundreds of items in your mailbox. It’s also a very powerful tool, but for right now I’m just going to go through the basics. For example, just type something into the search box above your folder list in the Yahoo! Mail Beta Window.

Yep it’s that easy to find a keyword, something in an attachment (more to come on that), or the header. But if you’re like me and you have hundreds of messages in your mailbox sometimes a keyword turns up too many results. What’s a person to do?

Shortcuts
Luckily, there are some handy shortcuts you can use to help find what you’re looking for. Let’s say I know who sent me the message I’m looking for. I can use the from: shortcut. For example, I type from:tim, and it will find all messages sent from Tim. I can also type in the full email address if I know it – from:tim@anyemailaddress.co.uk. There are other shortcuts too: from:, to: and subject:.

Need to get more specific? Then you just have to combine a keyword and a shortcut. Here’s an example: “search keywords” from:tim. Just notice that since I have two words separated by a space I have to use the quotation (“”) marks.

Saved Searches
And we help you even further by saving your searches in a list. So if you need to repeat a recent search, then just click the magnifying glass icon next to the search box, and look what you get…