Search within Email

[braddegs]

When searching within an email for specific text it would be a nice if the keyboard appeared when the search box popped up.  For my specific use case, I have logs emailed to me everyday from a automated process that runs each morning.  When that mail comes in, I search for the word "false".  Any presence of the word false means that something within the process failed.  I get the search box to appear by long pressing on the email content and pressing the find icon.  Pressing the find icon triggers the search box to appear at the top of the screen with a blinking cursor.  A blinking cursor is an indicator that the app is awaiting input.  But in order for the keyboard to appear, you need to click into the box.  I think it would save clicks and be more intuitive if the search box appeared with the keyboard.

Environment: AquaMail Pro 1.2.5.0.  Samsung Galaxy SIII, Android 4.1.2

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Since you're using Android 4.*, this is provided by the system:

Long press a word within the message, any word, to bring up the system "context action bar". Tap the search icon (see the attachment below) and change the search string to in the edit control above.

Not quite as simple as a dedicated app-provided menu item would be, but I can't seem to find a way to initiate message text search from my side.

[jdbecker]

My request for mail rules like those in Outlook could also help you. All you would need is to search for false in the message body and save it to one folder or the other based on that condition. Had a similar system log message years ago.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Speaking of message rules.....

Many mail servers have this (e.g. Gmail), and it works really well with any IMAP mail app, including AquaMail.

An added benefit is that when done on the server, message filtering is consistent between all devices (mobile and desktop) which you may be using.

[beaky]

Speaking of message rules.....

Many mail servers have this (e.g. Gmail), and it works really well with any IMAP mail app, including AquaMail.

An added benefit is that when done on the server, message filtering is consistent between all devices (mobile and desktop) which you may be using.

Hear, hear! I aim for my email experience in phone (apple), tablet (android), and PC win 7 to be as near identical as possible. If the server can do something, from rules to spam-filtering, let it.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Just want to share a tip about Gmail's message rules:

By default, a message rule that assigns a new label *also* keeps the default Inbox label. When seen over IMAP, filtered messages then appear in two folders.

To avoid this, i.e. to have the filter *move* rather than *copy* messages, select "Archive (skip inbox)" when creating your rule.

This leaves the inbox with just those messages that didn't match any filters. To me, that's just perfect.