YabPress /, or click the search in mail’s column. Before you type, it lists your recent searches, the threads you opened last and the people you wrote to last. Type, and the first row searches for your words with how many threads it finds, then come the people and the threads that fit best. ↩ takes a row.
Words, people and operators#
Words find mail by the start of its words, in the subject, the sender or the mail itself. Gmail’s own operators work too:
from:,to:,cc:,subject:has:attachment,is:unread,is:starred,label:,in:,category:after:,before:,newer_than:,older_than:"words together", a minus to leave words out,OR, and parentheses
↩ on a person lists their mail, and the list’s head switches between mail with them, from them and to them. Type again and you search their mail only; ⌫ in the empty field takes the person off.
All your mail, from Gmail#
This Mac keeps your whole inbox and every mail of the last two months, so most searches answer at once. When a search reaches further back, or finds fewer than ten threads, Yab asks Gmail too, and what Gmail finds joins the list, saying Gmail beside its time. Search all mail in Gmail, under the first row, asks Gmail whatever this Mac found: ⇥ takes it from anywhere in the search, and pressed again it brings the next 25.
With Settings › Mail › Let agents search all your mail on, the search also finds mail in the five years kept for agents, even without a network. Nothing found anywhere, the list says so: “Not on this Mac, and not in Gmail either”.
Keep a search#
Keep as a Split, at the head of a search’s list, keeps it in the column as a split of its own.