Email Search

Full-text search across your inbox using Gmail-style operators. Backed by MeiliSearch — sub-second results even on large mailboxes.

Two surfaces, one engine

Surface	URL	When to use
Search page	/admin/email/email_search	Full-page search with saved + recent queries + result list
Cmd-K palette	`⌘K` on any page	Quick overlay, no navigation needed

Operators

Operator	Example	Effect
`from:`	`from:jane`	sender contains “jane”
`to:`	`to:team@dro.ng`	recipient contains the address
`subject:`	`subject:Q3`	subject contains the word
`has:attachment`	`has:attachment`	only threads with files
`has:link`	`has:link`	only threads with URLs in body
`label:`	`label:work`	only threads tagged with the label
`after:YYYY-MM-DD`	`after:2026-04-01`	sent on/after the date
`before:YYYY-MM-DD`	`before:2026-05-01`	sent on/before the date

Operators can be combined; everything else is free-text full-text search:

from:jane has:attachment Q3 plans

Saved searches

Click Save after running a query you'll re-run often. Saved searches appear at the top of the search page and in the Cmd-K palette. They're scoped to your user account (not shared across tenants).

Recent searches

The last 20 queries you've run (auto-deduped) appear under saved searches. Click any to re-run.

Permissions

Search requires the email:search claim — default for admin, tenant_admin, user, and viewer.

Indexing latency

Newly delivered messages take a few seconds to appear in search results — the index is updated by a background Oban job (DRO.Email.Workers.SearchIndexWorker). Backlogs are visible in Outbound Jobs.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
`⌘K` / `Ctrl+K`	Open command palette
`Esc`	Close palette
`Enter`	Open the highlighted result