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Brennan Novak edited this page Jul 29, 2015 · 2 revisions

Underneath the hood of Mailpile is a powerful search query engine that you can feed all sorts of custom queries to narrow or expand your search! These commands can be typed into the web GUI search box or into the command line interface (CLI). If you are typing them in the CLI they are args for the search command.

Tags

Query Description
in:tag messages with a given tag assigned
-in:tag omits messages with a given tag assigned

Email Addresses

Query Description
from:name@address.com messages sent from a given address
to:name@address.com messages sent to a given address
contacts:name@address.com messages either from or to address

Mailboxes

Query Description
mailbox:name messages from one or more mailboxes which match name
mailbox:boxid messages from only the specified mailbox id

Date

Query Description
dates:2011..2012 messages between a range of years
dates:2011-06..2011-07 messages between range of years and months
date:2011-06-11 messages from exact date (can add +date values)
year:2001 messages from specified year
month:8 messages from specified month

Various

Query Description
subject:keyword messages with keyword in subject only
att:jpg messages with attachments of file type "jpg"
has:attachment messages with one or more attachments
has:crypto messages that are encrypted and/or signed
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