Find Your Messages - Take Control of Apple Mail (1.0) - page 61

Figure 15: The Favorites bar lets you narrow (or expand) the scope of the
search.
The options you can select are as follows:
• All: Click here to search messages in all mailboxes (including Sent and Drafts)
for the text you entered.
Note : When you select All, Mail can optionally include the Trash and Junk mailboxes and
the contents of any encrypted messages you've received, if Trash, Junk, and Encrypted Mes-
sages, respectively, are checked under “When searching all mailboxes, include results from”
in Mail > Preferences > General.
• Mailbox Name : If you had a single mailbox selected when you started search-
ing, that mailbox's name appears in the Favorites bar. Click it to restrict the
search to that mailbox. You can also select the name of any mailbox or smart
mailbox already on the Favorites bar.
• Selected Mailboxes: If you had more than one mailbox selected, click this to
search all (and only) those mailboxes.
• Save: Click this button, which sits at the far right of the Favorites bar, to Create
a Smart Mailbox .
Note: If you select All, Mail defaults to All the next time you search. If you search in
a single mailbox, the next time you search, Mail defaults to searching whichever mail-
box is selected at that time.
Search for a Phrase
To search for an exact sequence of words, such as “dark green shirt,” put quotation marks
around the phrase, like so: "dark green shirt" . Without the quotation marks, Mail
matches messages containing all three of those words, anywhere in the message—for ex-
ample, “Mr. Green put on his red shirt after dark ” would match.
If Searches Aren't Working Right
If you are sure that a search should be finding items that it is not finding, consult Fix
Searching Errors , near the end of this topic, for advice on solving the problem.