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How do I search for emails within a specific folder? I could do it within the old Yahoo! inbox.

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  • Brian Suckow commented  ·   ·  Report

    Need Advanced SEARCH Capability:
    The search function in the new Yahoo Mail is substantially downgraded from what existed with the previous classic version. It's very very hard to find old emails. Ideally the SEARCH function should include filters such as Who the Email was Sent To; the Subject; Words found in the Body of the Email; Words Excluded from Search Filter; Date range; Size of Email including Attachments, etc.

  • reza ray parsi commented  ·   ·  Report

    When you search for a subject , I get 150 emails for same subject and it is difficult to search for specific email. This new email version is not friendly and I sent many wrong emails to different people, since I am paying for my email service, I am requesting to switch me back to Classic ( previous ) email version.

  • Jagan Tirumalai commented  ·   ·  Report

    Attach calendar for yahoo mail. Currently if i want to look for an email from the past i have to go 1 page at a time. I have over 20+ years worth of email in my yahoo account. If want to lookup some mail from say 2015, I can't access that mail. I will have to traverse 1 page at a time.

    Calendar is their but its a separate entity its not connected to the yahoo mail acct.

    What i mean is i am looking for a date wise search in yahoo mail.

    Yes i know search is there. What if i want to see the emails from a past date. For example, I know that the mail is from 2015 or 2017. The greatest part is indexing by date in the sort section for each email box. I don't know if its hard to implement, but it is nice to have that as an added feature.

  • AMY COWHERD commented  ·   ·  Report

    Search does not work...EVER. So frustrating!!!

  • Thomas Anthony Baptist commented  ·   ·  Report

    Fix the search feature. No emails in any box/folders are found. only get "Nothing to see here"

  • Gina Bowers commented  ·   ·  Report

    search function in email is horrible. The emails are in front of me and the search function can't find it

  • Bondina Berns Goldstein commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seriously, this applies across the board with Yahoo. The search function doesn't work properly. The (new?) contacts format is horrible; the entire world alphabetizes by last name--except, it appears, Yahoo. The business of truncating emails, adding them together in a string and eliminating the individual emails is frustrating to work with and potentially dangerous if the string gets in the hands of the wrong person. Common Yahoo--you used to be better than this.

  • Sheila Bliesath commented  ·   ·  Report

    OH boy do I know what you mean. MY therory is that they get young wet behind the earss people to do some work, and they change things to try and justify the fact they were hired. IF IT ISN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT.

  • Ronald Jones commented  ·   ·  Report

    when i try to search my mail i get no emails found! I've been trying to find a way to contact yahoo, but they charge $4.99 for customer support?! This is ridiculous...

  • george s pang commented  ·   ·  Report

    If I need to search for a term which comes up heavily in email mass marketing I cannot exclude a particular sender / term. For example I receive marketing emails from williams sonoma. If I want to search for a brand name such as 'staub' I receive infinite williams sonoma mass emails and cannot find any non marketing emails. If I try to exclude by searching for "staub -williams" for example that simply does not work. Even if I try a more general term such as "staub -cookware" that sort of works until it gets back to 2017 emails at which point it suddenly stops working and shows tons of email again with the 'cookware' term.

  • Tom Houser commented  ·   ·  Report

    GREAT POST!
    If I have the word "credits" in my calendar, and I search for "credit," I get no results I'm like WHAT?!?!?! If I have "credits," and search for "credits" I also get no results b/c I left out the comma. SERIOUSLY???? And don't even get me started on the contacts .........and the lists, which aren't in alpha order............still...........after TWO YEARS!!

  • Suzanne Michelle commented  ·   ·  Report

    "Search" should include the SUBJECT LINE not just the bodies of email. I could not find an email, sent today, 1/22/20, with word "Winterthur" in it. Searching for word "winter" did not work either. Very frustrating. VERY annoying. Now I don't know if I can ever trust your results - and I've been with YAHOO for ... 30 years??

  • Chuck Tilly commented  ·   ·  Report

    When I search for partial phrases I don't get the emails with that phrase. For example, I am looking for an email that has the word "swing" in it. However I can't remember if the phrase is "swing trader" or "swing traders", or "swingtrader", so I just type in "swing". However, using just the term "swing", I don't get any results!!!! Why??? This is 2021 for god's sake. Yahoo!'s origins were search, so why doesn't search work????? You should be embarrassed about this. Please fix.

  • SASHA RAII commented  ·   ·  Report

    When I get a 100 mails from the same source then it is very diffcult to find individual mails without opening mail after mail. I of course mean the mails that I have read. The best way to find a mail is to be able to rename the actual mail. Reading a mail as it comes into the inbox and then directly renaming it so it is easy to find.

  • isis commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's beyond me how a company that has its own search engine can't get it together to provide a functional search feature in email. Yahoo Mail search has not worked properly since the 'New' Yahoo Mail was forced on us.

    I rarely find useful search results anymore. Many emails that should be included, because they have the search term in them, are not included.

    Scrolling down to see more results often does not work at all, and I'm stuck with only the most recent, often irrelevant results.

    There no longer is a count of the search results, so there's no way to know how many results to expect, so it's impossible to know if it's necessary to narrow down the search.

    This makes Yahoo Mail increasingly useless. Please make it a priority to fix the search feature, and to include the number of found results.

  • Shahrukh Mody commented  ·   ·  Report

    We are unable to locate all emails when we search a name or address., How do we get around it.

  • Kent Wilcox commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would like to search for all email on a certain date through several years, i.e. all messages I received on July 4 inclusive of all years

  • Greg John Flint commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've had to copy and paste a previous post from someone else, because I was not allowed to vote or comment on the idea.

    when using mail search, cannot filter results
    On the old mail, it used to be possible to filter search results by sender, by folder, by date, but now it seems to be a simple search which is less powerful.

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