Searching the Archive
Once you have logged in, you are brought to the main Search Archive screen.
To search your personal email archive, enter the search term into the search box, click Search.
NOTE
Tap Search without search terms returns all the messages in the archive.
To clear the search terms tap .
To view the contents of a message, tap the desired message.
The message you are viewing can be forwarded to your normal email box using the Forward To Self button. .
If your organization has the Email Continuity feature and continuity is active, the toolbar in the commands area of the screen contains more functions:
- Reply - Allows you to compose a response to the person who sent the message.
- Reply All - Allows you to compose a response to the person who sent the message, as well as all other recipients.
- Forward - Allows you to send the message and its attachments to another person.
See Compose a Message for more information.
Follow these tips to create more targeted, efficient keyword searches:
- Choose specific, descriptive keywords.
- Searches are not case sensitive.
- Most special characters are not allowed, or are ignored, in personal mail searches.
- The one special character that is used is the dash (-), which excludes from the search results documents that contain the following term or quoted phrase.
- For example: The search
anyone ‑anydomain
would return emails and attachments that containedanyone
that did not also containanydomain
. - Spaces are not allowed between the “-” character and the following term or phrase.
- The search database’s search index is based on whole words or tokens, not partial words or individual letters/numbers.
- For example: The search term
mail
would not return documents containing the termgmail
. - The search term
company
would matchperson@company.com
, but notperson@newcompany.com
. - No wildcard characters are needed because search automatically adds an implied wild card (*) at the end of every search term.
- For example a search term of
gma
would matchgma
,gmail
andgmails
. - Let the search engine help search for words with the same root. For example, if you type
project
the search also matches the wordsprojected
,projecting
, andprojects
. - Let the search engine speed up the search by weeding out unnecessary terms. For example, if you type
the quick brown fox
, it searches onquick
,brown
andfox
, because it knowsthe
appears in almost every email.
Non-Quoted Search Strings
When a non-quoted search string is entered, the search algorithm implements both the stop word and stemming functions.
First, it determines if any of the terms are Stop Words for the appropriate language. If so, it ignores the term.
Secondly, the search mechanism implements the Stemming function.
Example:
- Search string:
by tomorrow night
- Matches emails containing both (
tomorrow
ortomorrows
ortomorrow's
) and (night
ornightly
ornights
ornight's
), ignoring the stop wordby
Quoted Search Strings
When a quoted search string is entered, Stop Words and Stemming are again invoked, but stop words behave slightly differently.
If the quoted search string includes a stop word, the stop word is replaced with a wildcard that matches any stop word.
Example:
- Search string:
"the financial report"
- Matches all emails containing "(any stop word)
financial
(stemming applied)report
(stemming applied)" - These sequences are matched
a financially reported
orthe financial reports