Finding misfiled email

[fussyoldfart]

Using search finds old email messages I want but does not tell me where they are filed. If I have to use "search" it's because I have forgotten where I filed the message in the first place. I'd like to re-file it and associated messages, perhaps in a new folder.

How do I discover the exact location of such a message?

 

[Dave Braine]

When the search results come up, find the email that you want and just drag from the list to the new Folder in the Sidebar.

 

[fussyoldfart]

When the search results come up, find the email that you want and just drag from the list to the new Folder in the Sidebar.

Thanks, that will solve for the email found by "search" but will not allow me to examine the folder it was in to correct other misfilings.

 

[Efrem]

While your search results are visible, go to View>Columns. Presumably Mailbox is not checked, or you would see a column that gives the mailbox that each found message is in. Check it.

 

[fussyoldfart]

I tried that but it didn't get me the result I wanted either. You have reminded me that I can probably try searching each individual Mail Box (will do so later) but this is a pretty slow way to work.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I have two accounts in Mail and I'm not using the "Classic View". When I click, in the Mailbox List, the "MAILBOXES" heading I can do a search that looks in every folder of both accounts. The resulting message list gives me the name of the parent folder of every email in the list (under the date). It doesn't show the path to that folder, however.