Email Clients Tutorials
Mozilla Mail Tutorial
While our Mozilla Mail tutorial focuses on Windows, keep in mind that Mozilla Mail is a "cross-platform" email client: it runs and operates the same way on Windows, Apple's Mac OS X and Linux.
The Mozilla Foundation also offers the standalone Thunderbird email client: see the Mozilla Thunderbird Tutorial
Mozilla Mail's Search Bar
Mozilla Mail's Search Bar is placed below the Mail Toolbar above the emails. If it is not visible, go to View > Show/Hide > Search Bar. The Search Bar allows you to find emails on the fly, or filter the content you view in the current folder. Using the Search Bar doesn't affect emails themselves, it filters what you see in the current folder.
The View drop-down menu lists filters: if it shows an option other than All, the content of the current folder has been filtered.
Using Mozilla Mail's Views
• All will show the unfiltered content of the current folder.
• Unread will hide all read emails.
• [Label Name] The highlighted section represents Mozilla Mail's default labels. Selecting any of these label names from the View drop-down will hide all emails not marked as that particular label.
• Generic Filters will display only emails matching the given condition. Generic Filters can be removed or edited, and custom filters can be added. To add, edit or remove filters, choose Customize… from the View drop-down menu. (Filters are similar to "Rules" in Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.)
• Save View as a Folder… allows you create "virtual folders" that will show only emails matching the current condition(s). To create multiple conditions, repeat the selections of the View drop-down, and save as you go.
Using Mozilla Mail's Quick Search
Mozilla Mail's Quick Search works quite similarly to the View drop-down, and lets you filter on the fly the emails in the current folder. Here too, this not affect the emails themselves, but merely which emails are displayed.
Type text in the input field and hit Enter: Mozilla Mail will attempt to find emails matching the current condition.
Type "your raise", and hit Enter: only emails containing the term "Raise" in the subject line or sender's name will remain visible. If none is found, the folder view will be empty, like your hope of a raise.