I'm trying to find old gmails, knowing the source name.
All the help files, blogs etc. say: just type the name or text into the search box at the top of the gmail page. However, I don't have a search box on the gmail page at all and, having tried all the pull-down menus, still can't find one.
Where am I going wrong?

On Tuesday, 7 March 2017 16:20:39 UTC, therustyone wrote:
I'm trying to find old gmails, knowing the source name.
All the help files, blogs etc. say: just type the name or text into the search box at the top of the gmail page. However, I don't have a search box on the gmail page at all and, having tried all the pull-down menus, still can't find one.
Where am I going wrong?

It should be just below the https://mail.google.com/mail url box.

there's a little triangle in that box that can pull down a menu so you can be more spesific in your search (show search options)

therustyone wrote:

I don't have a search box on the gmail page

Eh? Great big thing across the top, to the right of google logo, with a
magnifying glass at the end ...

On Tuesday, 7 March 2017 16:20:39 UTC, therustyone wrote:
However, I don't have a search box on the gmail page at all and,
having tried all the pull-down menus, still can't find one.
Where am I going wrong?

I don't know, but if you use this link

http://mail.google.com/mail/h/

you'll get a basic HMTL version of GMail in case your settings or your browser are being silly buggers.

Owain

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It should be just below the https://mail.google.com/mail url box.

there's a little triangle in that box that can pull down a menu so you can be more spesific in your search (show search options)

Right, got it. I gave up using anything labelled Google long ago, as it usually searches the web, rather than what you're interested in. Wrong in this case!

On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 4:53:53 PM UTC, Andy Burns wrote:
therustyone wrote:

I don't have a search box on the gmail page

Eh? Great big thing across the top, to the right of google logo, with a
magnifying glass at the end ...

Yep, found it. I didn't expect anything labelled Google to do anything useful. Why isn't it labelled gmail.

Who knows.
You can use gmail via imap and do a local search, assuming it actually
downloads all the folders of course.
Brian

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I'm trying to find old gmails, knowing the source name.
All the help files, blogs etc. say: just type the name or text into the
search box at the top of the gmail page. However, I don't have a search
box on the gmail page at all and, having tried all the pull-down menus,
still can't find one.
Where am I going wrong?

On Tuesday, 7 March 2017 17:42:28 UTC, therustyone wrote:
Yep, found it. I didn't expect anything labelled Google to do anything
useful. Why isn't it labelled gmail.

On the HTML version I get two buttons: Search Mail, or Search Web.

Owain