Things to Know

Understanding Search

• Access Search from the magnifying glass in the top toolbar
• The window opens with a search type of Any or All, depending on your Search Settings. It can be changes for individual searches but will revert to the default for each new search
  • When using Any the criterion are considered as: "criterion 1" OR "criterion 2" OR "criterion 3"
  • When using All the criterion are considered as: "criterion 1" AND "criterion 2" AND "criterion 3"
• The default Search Scope () is set in the Search Settings. It can be changed for individual searches but will revert to the default for each new search
• If you change the selection for the included options: Trash/Junk/Sent (), it will be remembered in subsequent searches
• Start typing to see search suggestions
• When using multiple search criteria, spaces and commas indicate the end of one criterion and the start of another
• Put quotes around text when you want spaces in the text to be part of the search or use the
• Dates for Date Received or Review Dates need to be selected from the suggestion list for MailMaven to recognize them
• Date Received and Review Date will allow date ranges like "This Week", "This Month", or "This Year"
• If you want to use multiple search criteria, start typing the context you want (Subject, To, From ...) to bring up the suggestion list, or use the down arrow (⬇︎) to display the context/token options
  
  

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• To exclude a term in your search - NOT - use the command key with the minus (⌘ -) .
• In an Any search to force an AND/OR search use the command key with the plus (⌘ +) on the context token making it a must-have criterion or with the command key with the minus (⌘ -), making it a must-not-have criterion
• The X on the right clears the search context so you can start from scratch

Examples

Example 1

Search for messages that have the word "travel" or the word Portugal

Example 2

Search for messages that have the words "travel" and "Portugal"

Example 3

Search for messages that have the words "travel" and "Portugal", or is from suzieq@indev.ca or are in the account GM_W99

Example 4

Search for messages that have the words "travel" and "Portugal", or is from suzieq@indev.ca and are in the account GM_W99

Example 5

Search for messages that have the words "Mailmaven" and "test" where From contains "@smallcubed.com", and From is not "support@smallcubed.com"

Toggling +/- on a Criterion

Add the + to the Token/Criterion by placing the cursor at the end of the token/criterion set and clicking the command key with the plus (⌘+)

Add the - to the Token/Criterion by placing the cursor at the end of the token/criterion set and clicking the command key with the minus (⌘-)

Search Settings

• The Search settings are in Settings->View->Appearance->Search
• Default Search allows the search to be either All Words or Any Words
• With All Words selected, the subsequent search is an AND type search
• With Any Words selected, the subsequent search is an OR type search
• Default Scope determines where MailMaven looks for messages. The options are All Messages, Selected Mailboxes of Frontmost Viewer, or Last Selected Scope
• All Messages - all messages in MailMaven
• Selected Mailboxes of Frontmost Viewer - if you were in a specific mailbox when you clicked the "Search" icon that mailbox will be searched
• Last Selected Scope - remembers and uses your last scope when searching. You can select specific mailboxes to search in the Search window