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Find a message again

Search and its operators, plus the two folders where messages go when they leave the inbox: spam and trash.

A shared mailbox fills up fast. After a year, finding “the quote we sent the Martins” takes something other than scrolling.

Type words and Trupeo searches subjects, bodies and addresses. It searches the whole mailbox, not just the view you have open: a conversation marked done eight months ago comes back like the rest.

The operators

To narrow things down, search understands operators. They combine with each other and with plain words.

Operator What it matches
from: the sender
to: the recipient
subject: the subject only
filename: the name of an attached file
after: after a date
before: before a date
status: open or done
assignee: who it is assigned to

So from:martin quote after:2026-01-01 finds messages from the Martins containing “quote” since January.

If you type an operator with nothing after it, Trupeo says so (“Add a value after this search operator”) rather than searching for the literal word from:.

The options panel

“Show search options” opens the same possibilities as fields, with nothing to memorise: From, To, Subject, Has the words, Does not have, Filename, After, Before, a “Has attachment” box, the status, and the member list to filter by assignee.

It is the same search. The panel writes the operators for you.

Spam and trash

Below the views, two folders.

Spam shows what your provider classified as junk. Trupeo does not decide that for them: Gmail, Outlook or your own server sorts, and Trupeo shows the result. A message that should not be there can be taken out.

Trash holds what was deleted. Again nothing here belongs to Trupeo: it is the mailbox’s own trash, and your provider decides how long a message stays there before it is gone for good.

Both folders have their own counter in the sidebar. They are kept out of the inbox and the views: a conversation in the trash no longer shows in “To sort”, which is the point.

What this means for the team

Moving a message to spam or to the trash acts on the shared mailbox, so for everybody, and in Gmail or Outlook too. This is not personal tidying. The upside is real: a colleague who clears out the junk does it for the whole team, once.

Next step

To understand the views themselves, see Understanding the unassigned view.