Quick Search for Messages from a Sender
- Posted March 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, General, New Stuff, Tips & Tutorials
Did you know that you can retrieve all messages FROM a single user with only one click? Longtime readers of this blog already know that the All-New Yahoo! Mail features a very powerful and easy to use Search option that makes it very easy to filter your results by a wide variety of criteria (folder, date, sender, etc.). If you haven’t seen the previous posts with tutorials and screencasts, or if you simply love revisiting my earlier work, you should really check them out. 
Anyway, we know that often times people will be reading a message from another user, and realize that you need to track down something from an earlier email with that same person.
Maybe they have selectively forgotten an embarrassing admission. Or maybe you are certain that they included directions in a previous email but you are having trouble tracking down which message. Really, it could be any reason, but we all have times where this comes up.
Of course you can head up to the Search box and type in the user’s name, but that requires typing and accuracy. Instead you can simply click on the user’s name in the message header (name or email address) and a Search runs for all messages from that user. That’s right … only one click needed!
Apologies to the Classic users, but this feature is only part of All-New Mail.
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March 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
This is a very nifty feature! However, four out of five searches I did this way resulted in an extra check box with nothing to check. It wouldn’t allow me to select or check the box. This occurred for search results for contacts both included in my contacts list and some that weren’t. The one it didn’t occur on had 17 emails; the others had fewer. Dunno if that makes a difference. Thanks!
March 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Agree with melonkali. I also had the same problem.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:29 am
I actually have a question. I have had a yahoo email that I used for both work items and personal items for the past 6 years and I have lots of folders with tons of emails that I want to save. I recently started having an employee answer the work email. I created a new personal email for myself and I would like to transfer all my folders from email to the other. I know I could forward each individual email but I litterly have thousands of them. Is there a way to this all at once? tia for any help
March 28th, 2008 at 6:07 am
I have a question on RSS. I get an error trying to remove Yahoo feeds like “Yahoo News Most Viewed” for example. I also have another feed I added and see in “My Yahoo” but not in my Mail RSS list. Any suggestions?
Error is “problem removing feeds try again later”. That has been going on for months.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Would have been worth mentioning that this neat functionality also works to search all emails with the same SUBJECT! Just click on the subject in the email’s header…
March 28th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Good to know. I had no idea. Thanks to David as well for mentioning that it works with Subject as well.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I used to have a Yahoo Mail,but it was acting up,so now I use Hotmail by MSN.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Agree with melonkali. I also had the same problem.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I am looking for the feature of single thread as in gmail.There are too many mails in my mail box. Please when yahoo is doing this feature?
March 31st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I also had the extra check box when all the messages fit within my scroll window. I use the preview pane and if I adjusted the divider up so I needed to scroll in the message window, the extra check box was no longer there.
Also, if you only want messages from that individual that are stored within the current folder, you can just select one of the messages from that individual and click on the “From” header to sort by that field. All the messages that are from that individual in that folder will then be grouped together and sorted by date with the message still selected.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:45 am
My mail is not working! I get a 404 error. Why is there nothing about this outage on this blog?
April 1st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Just how hard would it be to make this search feature available in Classic? I’ve tried the All-New Mail several times and don’t like it. Are you going to be like Microsoft and abandon your loyal users just because they don’t like your new offering as much as you do? Oh, maybe you’re actually preparing for the time Microsoft is successful in acquiring Yahoo! and already adopting MSoft’s tactics.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:03 am
This is all fine and dandy, except for those of us who prefer to use Classic Yahoo (for a great number of reasons on better performance), we see left in the dust by engineering to fix the most basic problems - such as our email search is no longer working, even after 3 days of trouble tickets and resets, pus the constant Errors that we always get. Why don’t you treat your long time premium customers with as much care as you want to roll out new features that are useless to us?
May 6th, 2008 at 2:21 am
I’ve found Yahoo mail’s search feature the best of any mail client I’ve used in the past. However, recently it appears to have been playing up on me.
Searches for simple key words like ‘David’, that appear in lots of messages, or using the from:sender type syntax, have been consistently returning very minimal results, if not any.
I’ve experienced the issue in FF2.0 and IE7 from multiple locations.
Any thoughts?
June 20th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I’ve been having the same problems as jombojones for years now. The mail search feature just doesn’t work. Search results are nearly always incomplete. I just tried clicking on the sender’s email address as described in this blog and the search function didn’t find the message that I clicked from! Yahoo, please fix searching!
July 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
This search functionality is bunk! It just plain doesn’t work consistently. I have the same issue as jombojones and Rebecca. The search can’t find the email where I clicked on the sender’s email. I don’t have this problem with gmail. Poor form Yahoo!!
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Same search problem : I found my email that I was looking for ,manually, but when I try in quick search box nothing shows up , I even copy paste word or fraze from that email and still nothing shows up , instead appears other irrelevant email .
July 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I agree with many of the recent posts about searching, especially jombojones. I can no longer search for emails by using a simple keyword search - NOTHING turns up. I’ve emailed customer care several times and have gotten zip in terms of answers. Sorry Yahoo, but I’m leaving for Gmail.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Wow… I thogth I was the only one with this problem, and now I feel much better knowing that maybe Yahoo can solve our problem quicker… I don´t want to leave my yahoo mail cause I have it for 10 YEARS… I always search my old mails from mail search feature and never had this problem before. Because I have may mail for 10 years, I have some messages in it that I want to see, but now, it´s being a BIG PROBLEM to access them…
Will Yahoo solve this problem?!?!?!?
July 29th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Hi… It seems that yahoo solved my mail search problem. Now, it´s working… I can find old mails and not just recent ones.
Thanks Yahoo.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:09 am
HI…I am have been a yahoo user for a decade! Havde a lot of work email stored on my inbox which I could access very easily by a simple search…untill recently! Pls help me access the search/.advance search feature…i cant possibly search thru my emails manually…its too time consuming. Will be happy if Yahoo can solve this problemh
August 4th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Hi….the search problem roughly appeared 2-3 months ago; then it got better temporarily for 10 days or so, then unfortunately, it is back again. I contacted Yahoo customer care and I keep getting told that Yahoo engineers are aware of this issue and are working on it….I certainly hope it gets resolved soon!