BlueMail's search helps you quickly find any email by keyword — across subjects, body content, and recipients, covering both locally stored and server-side emails.
Where to start a search
There are two ways in, and both open the same search screen:
- The search bar above the email list. Tap or click it — it reads Search... — and start typing. Results appear as you type.
- The ⋮ menu at the top of the email list, then Search. Useful if the search bar has scrolled out of view.
How Search Works
- Search is scoped to the folder you are currently viewing.
- Results include both emails stored on your device and emails on the server.
- Search scans subject, body, and recipient fields.
Because results already include messages held on the server as well as those on your device, there is no separate "search on server" step to start — one search covers both.
If search doesn't find your email
A message can be in your mailbox and still not appear in results. These are the usual reasons, in the order worth checking:
- You are searching the wrong folder. Search covers the folder you are in, not the whole mailbox. Open the folder you expect the message to be in and search again — see How do I Access other Folders like Drafts, Sent, Archive, and Trash?
- The folder isn't being synced. Only selected folders are synced, and sub-folders have to be selected individually — selecting a parent folder does not include the folders inside it. See Select Which Folders to Sync and Ensuring Full IMAP Folder Visibility in BlueMail.
- The message is older than your sync window. Mail outside the Days to Sync period isn't held on the device. See What is the Days to Sync Option?
- The message body was never downloaded. Body text can only be matched on messages whose content has been downloaded. If Auto Download Messages up to is set low, or the message is larger than that limit, its body is not searchable locally — see How to set the Size for Auto Downloading of Messages? and How to Configure Offline Storage Settings?
If you can find a message by searching but not in the list
That usually means a filter is hiding it rather than the message being missing. The All filter shows every email in the folder, including messages marked Done or Reply Later, which the other filters leave out. See What are the Filters on the Top Bar Menu?
For mail that is missing everywhere, not just from search, see Missing Emails.
Selecting and Acting on Results
- Tap or click any result to open it.
- To act on multiple emails, long press (mobile) or use multi-select (desktop) to enter multi-edit mode — then delete, move, or mark as read in bulk.
