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Student Email - Searching for Messages

1. Click on Search in the Navigation Bar.
2. Enter the information to guide the search.
3. Add the search information in the appropriate box. You can search for the following items:
   • From - Who sent a message.
   • To/CC - Who the message was addressed to, or who received a copy of the message.
   • Larger than/Smaller than - How large or small the message is (in kb).
   • Subject - The text in the Subject line.
   • Body - A text string in the body of the message.
4. You can refine the focus of the search by specifying either of the following:
   • Search in results: To search only the messages that were the results of a previous search.
   • Search unread only: To search only the unread messages in the current folder.
5. Click on Search.

Note: Webmail allows you to use the following Boolean operators in a search: OR, AND, NOT. For example, in the From field you could search for Brad OR Mike. The OR, AND, NOT operators are casesensitive, meaning they must all be uppercase. If they are lower case, or a mixture of upper and lower case, your query will search for those words explicitly instead of treating them as
operators.

The search queries, on the other hand, are case-insensitive. This would mean that a query for all messages from Brad would return the same results as a query for all messages from brad.

If the result of your first search is too large, you can refine the search by performing another search on the results you just received. Follow the steps above and select the Search in results checkbox. The results of the new search are derived from the previous search.

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