Advanced search by selecting one or more labels and folders
Expand search on filters
- allow to search a label and a folder
- allow to search a label and/or a label and/or a label
- allow to search (a label and/or a label) and a folder
Then I can look for different aspects of the same directory.
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Sarah McConnor commented
Same thought as Jacob mentioned earlier here, I find it utterly shocking to have implemented only single label searches. Many systems share the same common point, labels are useful for "multi dimensional" filtering. Otherwise it seems like a folder, you've implemented this as if they were folders.
I'll give a meaningful example. An email can be related to 'support' being requested from your 'bank' support team. And another be related also to a 'support' to a 'social network' platform.
You're then forcing us to implement 2 labels: 'banking/support' and 'social media/support'
Not ideal to deduplicate and it can increase considerably the admin task to manage your emails.
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Jacob Sharkey (Sharkey310) commented
I was shocked that you can only search on one label.
You built a label system why have it be gimped. What's the point of assigning multiple labels if I can't search by a combination of them?
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Andrew Aye commented
It is also a critical part of the onboarding (import) stage to allow for properly manage issues that come up.
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stewSquared commented
Absolutely critical, especially when a lot of power users are used to google.
See their search docs: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190
Even if you can't implement search syntax, at least try to keep up with functionality.
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Kenneth commented
This is a must have. I'm finding it not possible to organize my email after migration.
Actually, looking a little more into the ideas, I cannot believe that this only has 163 votes. I would give it all mine if I could.
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Mattias commented
Why have labels if you cannot make search in several labels and/or folders? I often want to find my mails in one folder with one or more labels.
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Daniel commented
have seen this all over the place requested many times for many years. AND saw a message saying the API actually already supports it, so it is just a front end implementation.
As per all the comments below, labels are no more useful than folders without being able to use AND with them - otherwise there's point assigning multiple 'virtual folders' (ie labels) to them.
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Gary commented
any chance we get a feature like this anytime soon?
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Momo commented
I just imported all of my Gmail, Yahoo and other providers' email accounts into ProtonMail... only to find that this basic and critical feature is not available !
It is so unbelievable that I didin't even bother to check in the first place... Now I think of moving everything to Exchange / O365.
Sorry Proton, the whole idea of privacy is great, but the system has to be usable by users who file, search for, forward, delete emails by thousands potentially each and every day. -
Ventto commented
Critical feature. I am thinking about going back to GMail...
ProtonMail without this feature is not ready for long term. -
Nimble commented
Critical feature. The power of labels is cripled without it. Like others, after setting up my labels, I was shocked to discover that this basic function is missing. I will have to think very hard about whether proton will continue getting my subscription money.
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barracuda0715 commented
I went through the trouble of configuring a custom sieve filter to automatically label incoming emails and then... I can't search multiple labels or a label + inbox? Very frustrating.
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[Deleted User] commented
Search (filter) by several tags (label) is must have. I would like to filter my emails by several tags like - «tax» & «2022» & «invoices»
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JY commented
Proton, I paid 2 year to get unlimited label, and moved all my Gmail over. Now, I am finding that I can't even search "AND" for labels?
I really want to make this work. But, looks like this is just money wasted. Will probably stop using Proton.
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Pedro Cunha commented
This is a feature Proton Mail is sorely missing. For a service with E2E encryption that sacrifices email searchability for privacy reasons (yes, I know one can enable full message search, but still!), Proton Mail should compensate by having a stellar labeling / search facility.
Instead, not only is it not stellar, it is even sub-par: what's the point of allowing for multiple labels in a message if one cannot search for messages with multiple labels? This works well only for email counts below a few dozens, when you can quickly search for emails with one label and **visually** identify the ones with another label as well.Please, do take a look at this, it is much more important than the full-text search you implemented recently.
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Mr. Anath commented
I group things by tag, it makes more sense then dropping them into a folder. Because it allows me to perform queries such as 'YEAR' + 'SUBJECT' + 'ACTION' using the tagging system.
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Jenny commented
Like other commenters, including similar tickets, I'm really missing Gmail's search functionality. Search operators are a must!!
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Dan commented
Would love to see NOT <label> so I can properly delete messages that are not label with my extra special "DONOTDELETE" && "SAVE" labels :)
having ability to search multiple labels leveraging AND, OR, and NOT along with addresses, subjects, dates is kind of necessary in order to not accidentally delete labeled contents ... only decent way to purge inboxes ... and purging ones mailbox is good security hygiene
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cipher commented
i think this functionality should be implemented with search operators so advanced users can type their search query rather than trying to use the ui. and more than just location operators should be made available. initial release should include operators for every option currently available in advanced search with the ability to invert or negate an operator. later releases should add searching by attachment type, attachment size, starred, and others that have been suggested throughout topics on uservoice.
https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/suggestions/42086344-search-with-multiple-labels
https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/suggestions/18918526-search-for-more-than-one-labelhttps://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/suggestions/20360023-add-search-operators -
Bixente commented
Yes, yes and yes.
It doesn't make sense that the "Location" search field includes a list of choices of different nature (folder, labels).
Also add the possibility to search messages that DO NOT have a Label assigned (within a folder or not).