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Figure 11:
As you type a search term, suggested queries appear in a list.
Use the Up or Down arrow key to select one and then press Return. If you
select “Message contains” (as shown here), Mail searches message con-
tents for whatever is in the Search field.
If you ignore the list of suggestions, or select the default choice at the top (“Message con-
tains:”), Mail simply searches entire messages (including headers and metadata) for that lit-
eral text.
If Mail notices that whatever you've typed is part of a name, email address, date, subject, or
other message header, it may display the corresponding full item in the list. Select one of
those items (for example, a sender's name) and Mail encapsulates it in a little gray bubble
(
Figure 12
). That bubble is a
search token
—a unit that functions as a special, adjustable
search term. Tokens are great because they make searching less error-prone and easier to
manipulate.
