Search

Geary supports a per-account full text search. To start a search, select a folder associated with the account you'd like to search against. Then click the search box in the toolbar (or press Ctrl+S) and start typing. Results will appear after a brief delay.

The full text search includes email text, email addresses (to, from, and cc), subject lines and attachment filenames.

Keywords that match your search are highlighted in the message view. Geary will match different forms of the same word, for example searching for "walk" will also match "walking" and "walked."

Search operators

Geary supports the following operators to limit the scope of searches:

attachment:filename

Finds messages with attachments whose name matches filename.

bcc:recipient

Finds messages where recipient matches the BCC header.

body:text

Finds messages whose body contains text.

cc:recipient

Finds messages where recipient matches the CC header.

from:sender

Finds messages where sender matches the From header.

subject:text

Finds messages whose subject contains text.

to:recipient

Finds messages where sender matches the To, CC, or BCC header.

As a special case, the bcc, cc, from, and to operators support me as their argument, which searches for the account's email address in the appropriate context.