Searching lets you find messages and contacts. You can search by specific words, by dates, time, URL, size, tag, whether or not a message has been read, whether it has file attachments or attachments of a particular file type.

Zimbra offers two search tools:

Search

You can select to search within messages, your personal contacts, the global address list contacts, or to search all three types.

 

The drop-down on the left of the search button allows you to select which type of items to search for.

You can also save searches

1. Once you have query for a search click on Save
   
2. Name the search folder. Just make sure is is not a folder name that already exist.
   
3. Access the save search from the left navegation frame
   

Advance Search

Opens a new pane and makes it easier to execute more complex searches. You can save your advanced search queries.

1. Click on Advance
   
2.  You can add as many search criteria
   
3. To remove a search critera click on the right hand conrer x
   
4. Press Enter to run search

Zimbra search syntax works as follows:

• You can search for phrases, but each word within that phrase is matched literally by whole-word only. Spelling variants are not allowed.

* For example, if you search for bananas, messages with banana are not a match. You can search by domain name including the "." (period)

• Search is not case sensitive; "South", "south", and "SOUTH" are all the same thing.
• These special characters cannot be used in your search text. ~ ' ! @ # $ % ^ & * () _- + ? / { }[ ] ; : "
• The asterisk * as a wildcard after a prefix is supported. That is search for do* returns items with the word dog, door, etc.
• Searching for content will search the body of a message plus any (system-readable) file attachments it may have. A system-readable file attachment is a type of file that can be converted to HTML-viewable text. These include Microsoft Office documents (Word, PowerPoint, or Excel), as well as text files, but not image or audio files.