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Searching for messages

Message List

A message search results in a list of messages that match the search; a pop-up dialog will inform you if there are no messages matching the search.

Each row in a message list has a checkbox for selecting the message, a numeric message id that is hyperlinked to a Message Info page, the date of the message, and the subject of the message. Long message lists are paged, with pagination links appearing at the top of the page. To the left of the pagination list is pulldown that allows you to select or deselect all the messages on the current page. The selection status of a message is preserved for the duration of a login session (even if the relevant message list page is deleted), but the selection status is not retained across login sessions. You can change the selection status of a message multiple times in a login session.

There are only two functions associated with selection status:

  1. Selection status can be used as a criterion in a message search.
  2. Selection status determines which messages are determined in an export. (but note that at the point of export, you can decide whether to export all messages that ARE selected or all messages that ARE NOT selected).

Message info page

A message info page has two parts:

  1. The top part of the page some attributes of the message, including information from these mbox header lines "Message-Id:", "Date:", "Subject:", "From:", "To:", and if present, "Cc:", "Bcc:", and "In-Reply-To:". If the message has an "In-Reply-To:" header and if the replied-to message is in the DArcMail database, then the message id of the replied-to message is hyperlinked to its message info page. If the message itself has replies, then the text "Get Replies" (or "Get Reply") is hyperlinked to a list of the replying messages.
  2. The bottom part of the page lists the message parts. See Message Content for information on the structure of the message content list.
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