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Search your mail
Find any email by the words in it or by what it means, and narrow a search by sender, recipient or subject.
Type words, and Alrighty finds the messages that contain them. Ask a question, and it finds the message that answers it: "when is my flight" brings up the airline's confirmation. Both kinds of match come back in one list.
Narrow a search
"quarterly report"matches the exact phrase.from:maya,to:me@icloud.comandsubject:invoicenarrow by sender, recipient or subject.- Words match by their beginning, so "recei" finds "receipt".
What search covers
Search covers each account's newest 50,000 messages outside Trash, Junk and Drafts. The index is kept on your computer.
A new account is indexed newest first. Until it finishes, its server's own search fills in older mail.