Yeah, the search is not very good. Actually pretty poor considering how good ProtonMail is in general. I keep all of my email as a sort of personal record keeping system. An accurate and comprehensive search feature is huge. One reason to stick with Gmail.

It really takes over 5 years to implement capabilities to search email bodies!?
This limits the long-term usability of protonmail. (Really, want to know why gmail initially gained traction...?)

This feature should be at the top of your priority list, forget drive and the rest, this is a fundamental requirement and will drive people to other providers if not implemented soon.

I'm new to ProtonMail. I generally love it. However, the biggest lack is the ability to search the content of messages. If you can add this feature, I'd be happy to use ProtonMail for lots of things. I just discovered this morning that it cannot search message content, and that is a major negative for me.

I am always facing issues finding some data on my emails
The search field is searching only subject and sender details by.
Why it does not search for entire email for requested text or word?

search feature does not search in the subject nor the body.. that need to improve. thinking of going back to gmail even though it's less secure due to this problem.

I can't believe this feature request does not have more votes !
Efficient search is a basic need for any modern mail system, since Google / Gmail introduced the "search instead of classify" spirit.

There are technocal ways of providing search without breaking privacy, with new zero-konwledge algorithms.
See : https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/2jln9t/does_a_zero_knowledge_search_index_exist_in/

or

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/437.pdf

I can't believe this feature request does not have more votes !
Efficient search is a basic need for any modern mail system, since Google / Gmail introduced the "search instead of classify" spirit.

There are technocal ways of providing search without breaking privacy, with new zero-konwledge algorithms.
See : https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/2jln9t/does_a_zero_knowledge_search_index_exist_in/

or

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/437.pdf

Agreed. We need to be able to enter a keyword and have ProtonMail search the subjectA, contacts AND body of messages for that word. Otherwise the search is completely useless. Every other *free* email platform has this function.

Dear Protonmail - what is the status of this much needed feature?
You have tagged it as planned in 2015 - but we heard nothing ever since (beside that we can use the bridge which is not an option in my case)...

YES!! keep up with other competitors- need to search text words as well as heading and username

If I have search based on some data part of email, search feature doesnt search/match but it looks for subjects only. If you compare with Gmail, it search email contents too.

Easily the most vital feature missing for business use. The only reason this has so few votes is due to the fact that proton mail brings up voting to brand new users and EVERYONE assumes Proton Mail has at least basic search functionality. What it does have is quite a bit less than basic search functionality. I really appreciate all the hard work, but I have to say that it is ridiculous this isn't already a thing and that it has to be voted on. I also don't feel like "it's hard" or "because security" are excuses here. At least give us an "insecure" way (with lots of warnings about how stupid we are for using the feature) until this is resolved. If I could, I would put all of my votes on this.

My support to all the comments that say that the search in email content is an _essential_ feature.
As many users, I will not upgrade until this is functional.

tagged as "planned" in 2015. Please PM team, get to it!! tutanota already did it in 2017!

I agree with all the comments. Can't understand why this isn't a standard feature. Currently a free customer and the limited search functionality is the primary reason I don't upgrade.

It's clear there are ways to create a search for the user of encrypted email. Anybody at Protonmail care to confess how the lack of that feature is INTENTIONAL and designed to inconvenience people back to Google?

This is a feature I've had in the past with other mail systems and I REALLY miss it. It is becoming a big productivity problem for me when I have to research issues. I have to remember who sent something or what the subject line was and after a few months (days!) that is almost impossible. Please consider it! Thank you!!!

Full text search is a must-have feature. Tutanota can do it; why can't you?

This really needs to be built, other providers (e.g tutanota) can do it, why can't ProtonMail? It's crazy to be lacking this ability in 2020!