Steven Stockton: Yes, Gmail-style searches are supported but only for Gmail / G Suite accounts, simply because Missive forwards the search to Gmail itself.

Rafael Masson: They may be supported but they don't work well for several reasons. 1) Results are missing many items that appear in the same search inside gmail. 2) Say you type out the full gmail search operator. Something like from:name@domain.com contains:searchword. You have to fully type all of that, there is no auto complete once you type from:. So I have to stop my typing go find the email, enter it, and finish the search all to get results that aren't complete. It is not a viable search feature. Imagine typing all of the 20 times a day.

David Kraljic: Can you email support@missiveapp.com with specific examples so we can investigate (keywords used + subject and reception time of expected search result) ? Thank you.

Note that “contains:” as you mentioned is not a documented Gmail search operator: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en

Jonathan Laukenmann: If the words are contiguous, you can use quotation marks:

If they're not, you can use multiple subject queries:

Geoff Ball: what Happens when I Type: jumps dog?

Does it default to contiguous or not?

Jonathan Laukenmann: If you mean:

That should do a search for a message with "jumps" in the subject and "dog" anywhere (body, subject, etc.).

Geoff Ball: cool, that makes sense. Strange that it feels like it’s sometimes missing results. I’ll keep an eye one it, next time I’m looking for something