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Very important for business users! This is a basic function that is missing.

I was just about to add a defect for this.  Thanks for looking out!  This is a MUST
for corporate exchange!!  What am I supposed to manually page through 100 pages of
email hoping to find that one message from Bob in Accounting where he used the
word "meeting".  Come on...

I agree, this is VERY important for business users! Please help!!

I have started using Touchdown becuase of the GAL issue. It includes a search
function for the address fields and subject line, but still no search functionality
for the body of the message.

Crazy that Google, a search engine company, doesn't have good search in their
corporate email and calendar app.  I've got more than 1,000 emails in my inbox and
spread across multiple folders. I've got 1000's of calendar events.  Everything has
to be searchable with the very same tools and UI as web search.  

Have to have email search!

A must have!

Google advertises Android to be business friendly.  It is not. I understand they
don't want to support Exchange because they don't like MS.  But the corporate world
already has invested in Exchange, so either jump on the wagon or get off.  Please
upgrade the priority of "Enhancement"

I agree, it should work just like the search function inside the gmail app.

This is so important, it MUST be a high priority for the next upgrade. I'm
disappointed its missing from the 12/11 OTA upgrade on the Droid. This is a
deal breaker for real business users. Otherwise, the phone is incredible,
best on the market!

Very depressing to find out this business 'tool' doesn't locate the all-important
business message.  Though I can check my Outlook mail on the Web browser, off-line I
will be helpless in finding vital information when I need it.

between this issue and no way to have signatures, making me want to return it.  
Fix ASAP both business issues.  I'm telling people not to buy it until this is
fixed.  

Not only search of Exchange email, but sorting by sender, subject, etc. is also
required.

The iPhone does this! C'mon Google, I'm banking on you guys to make apple juice ;) -
that's the primary reason I switched from the iPhone.

i have been recommending this to our corp users because I didn't know it lacked this
functionality.  I just had a user come ask me how to do it, I realized I couldn't
figure it out so I started googling it and now see the uprour about his issue.  On
top of that, I just got reamed out by my director for assuming a search engine
company wouldn't leave out basic search functionality.  He wants me to wait until
this functionality is added before recommending any more Android phones.  Hello
Touch Pro 2/iphone.

This is definitely a need in order for me to recommend/purchase this phone for other
staff members.

I had no idea until I tried to execute a search.  This is a must have.  Any developers
out there?  Make a plug-in or something!  Google, get some nerds on this one.

A basic Search is so critical for corporate (and personal) mail. However, even more
useful would be some sort of Filter interface that could do a multi-field
search/limit - e.g. select a date range, a body-text string, a Recipient Contains
filter, etc.

Just switched from Blackberry a few days ago.  I don't believe I would've switched
had I known.  I love the phone otherwise, but this is critical to my daily work.  
C'mon guys - Google invented the search!  Take this opportunity to blow the other
corporate exchange search functions away.

I would expand this RFE to include the contents of POP/IMAP email accounts in addition to Exchange-based
accounts.

Absolutely required, not only local search but also server search for Exchange
accounts. This is basic functionality.

By the way, Moxier Mail, does allow both local and Server searches for contacts and
emails on Exchange account, but I would rather use the Native App.

Android 2.1

I would expect to be able to perform a server side query via OMA/OWA worst case.

I concur, I get up to 70 email's per day and sorting by sender (subject, etc) would
be helpful. "5398 Enhancement  New" seems similar to this issue and perhaps could be
consolodated? Thanks folks for overall innovative platform!

Please get the search feature working quickly. It is a huge pain to scroll through my
emails to find ones from a certain sender. Even the ability to sort would help.

5398 is more complex than this one, but definitely a welcome advanced feature. I am
going to post a link there to make sure people star this issue, as it is more basically
essential and the groundwork for sorting and filtering.

I am also disappointed that email search (subject, sender, etc.) is absent for
non-gmail email.  This should be a high priority addition to any future releases.

This feature request should fall under the support of the Active-Sync protocol as
the server side search feature is documented.

I can not believe that the searching function is missing in the email client for
non-gmail accounts! This prevent android phones being employed in our group! Please
definitely add this feature for the next release.

I installed Froyo (Android 2.2) on my phone specifically to get corporate email search and I was dismayed to find
that this is still not fixed.  How can you say Froyo has Exchange support if you can't search your email on the
phone?  Scenario: Out to meet a date, she's not where  you expect her to be, you want to double-check the email
trail, but OH, I'm on Android, I can't find that email without scrolling back through every single bloody email in
my inbox.  I get 200 emails a day.  Android is not "corporate ready" without corporate (Exchange) email search.

This is a must.

Google come on, get search for Exchange in there already.  Look at your competitor, iphone, phone wide search is there.  For a search company, this should be a no brainier.

Even on Froyo this is not fixed. Come on Google get with the program.

I travel a lot and rely on needing this, I was so surprised it wasn't there already, it is now the only thing i'm waiting as well as the sorting abilities too.

I'm in my trial period for my Droid X and the fact that this feature is lacking may result in the purchase of an iPhone instead!  At least I know that if I hold the iPhone right it will work.  Why wouldn't the king of search provide the search function for something as simple as my email!  This is a disaster!

I'm in my trial period for my Droid X and the fact that this feature is lacking may result in the purchase of an iPhone instead!  At least I know that if I hold the iPhone right it will work.  Why wouldn't the king of search provide the search function for something as simple as my email!  This is a disaster!

Just checking in with you guys at Google on this issue.  It is a real issue.  You may not get tons of comments on it, partly because it was hard to find the proper thread to comment about it.  Can you PLEASE reclassify this as a DEFECT rather than as an ENHANCEMENT?  How can you have email not be searchable?

Please enhance soon. I would've never thought in a million years that king of search would overlook the most vital search option. Droid x will probably go back. Ill buy an android device once this issue is addressed.

BUMP!!

8 months and still no response from Google?

You're killing me guys. Please say something.

It is not going to happen. If google does fix anything, it will be based on  
the gmail product, not exchange or some other third party email server. I  
think we may have more luck asking Microsoft to create an outlook client  
for Android.

Please add search to email client that returns result for any matching result on all accounts (hotmail, gmail, exchange etc...).  Google Desktop searches my exchange account on my PC.

Must have feature.

Noting I'm impressed by all these other phones that can search all your email. Why, I didn't know there were phones that could store 1GB+ of email. Request feature requesters ask MS to add functional mobile web client or Android app that can access Exchange email search. We use Zimbra OTOH and the web client search works fine.

Ridiculous... Can't believe it's been more than half of a year but the problem is still unsolved.

"I have started using Touchdown becuase of the GAL issue. It includes a search
function for the address fields and subject line, but still no search functionality
for the body of the message."

This must be the previous version of Touchdown.  I have downloaded the latest and it does allow searches in the body of exchange email.  It is a $20 program, but the functionality is great.

I think just sending the link would have been good enough. I saw this
earlier. Most of the apps have really bad comments.

I have been able to search on sender or subject on my Motorola Droid X (2.1) using the default messaging client.

While viewing your Inbox, hold down the menu button and enter your search term.  It will filter by your search term for sender and/or subject.

This works for my Exchange, POP3, Text Messaging and Facebook inboxes, but not the Universal inbox.

This does not search the body of e-mails.

I have not tried this on any other phone, so your mileage may vary, but I'm told if you have a Motorola Droid, you can just start typing and it will do the same thing.  

I'm unclear if this is a feature of MotoBlur or a feature of stock Android.

Hope this helps someone.

Allen, thank you for that tip!  Coming from bberry land, not being able to search email has been killing me, almost making me want to go back.  I had no idea this was built in.  Never seen it documented anywhere either.  It's not the full search I really want but it is 80% of the way there.  Thanks again!

How on earth would / could corp users take Android seriously? Really! #-/

So, I have some news on this.  In the last couple of days, I have tested both a Droid 2 (running Android 2.2) and a Sprint Epic 4G (running Android 2.1) and both have corporate email support (Exchange) that DO have email search, although it appears in each case it only searches the sender and subject line.  I suspect the carriers have modified the OS to have this feature.

@rowetim.

I tried with 2.2 on N1 and does not have this support.  I agree that it is these carriers doing the modification themselves.  I cannot fathom why a search king would not enable search on corporate email.

Having switched to HTC EVO a few months ago, I can confirm that both 2.1 and 2.2 search local email through the main Google search bar, and within the email app by clicking the hardware search button.

I am using the basic mail app, but it may be HTC's version if the stock app. I know however that it works outside of the HTC Sense home screen i.e. 3rd-party home-replacement apps.

Still no server-side search though.

Guys - only way to check if Google has delivered is to check native builds on Nexus One. The latest 2.2 build still does not support email client search. Let's continue to push them to. All reports above regarding supposed suppport are extensions built or licenses by OEM's. This is not very cool as the experience is inconsistent at best. Google, are you serious about winning market share from Blackberry, WinMo etc or not?!?

Agree with Wing.K.Lee and as one of the original commenters, I am still waiting for this feature to find it's way into the base OS code.  I am running 2.2 on the original Moto Droid, and we still don't have this feature.  I've mailed this issue all over at Google and to various executives there incl Andy Rubin, so I am confident they are aware of this issue.  

@bguild

Do you have any insight into what is keeping them from implementing it? IS there any technical limitation that you are aware of?  

@dpotluri

Sorry I do not have any insight.  I have not received replies from my communications to them, and further it does not look like anyone in Google development has officially "reviewed" this issue, according to the board here.  It's a real shame that this feature is being implemented by the carriers on a selective basis, but not Google itself.  This is why so many folks have turned to using Touchdown, and I have to imagine this will hurt Android adoption with corporate users.

Just returned an android phone two days ago after finding out there was no email search.  Guy at the store where I bought it said it was "like your Pre but sooo much better."  Not hardly.
Email search is VITAL for business users.  I can't be standing with a client scrolling through 3000 emails.  It's back to the Pre for me!  I am so disappointed.  I really wanted to love the android os.  70,000+ apps in the catalog does nothing for me if I can't even use what I thought was a very basic functionality of a smartphone.  :(  Is there some other website I can check to find out if this functionality is added soon?

I'm not sure this is a workaround for anyone--I too want native search--but you can do a 'keep and forward' email to keep an email and have a backup on gmail and use the gmail app for search.  You might have to talk to your IT guys but I have set it up with two separate accounts.

Goggle searchbar widget, settings mark email....done, works for me.

Sorry this only seems to search subject

This sucks. Just purchased new Google G2 and TWO MAJOR ISSUES WILL FORCE ME TO RETURN IT AND GO BACK TO BLACKBERRY. ONE NO EMAIL SEARCH AND TWO NO EMAIL SPELL CHECK.

AND THEY WANT ME TO PAY 400 BUCKS FOR THIS CRAP I THINK NOT !!

I also added this as a feature over on the Cyanogenmod bug tracker.  If you are interested in using a custom rom, please star and add comments over there as well.  Issue # 2353

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=2353&q=email.apk&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Version%20Model%20Network%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars%20Priority

Core functionality missing.  Not very friendly for corporate email power users. Not only is the GAL search too hard, missing the ability to search emails is critical.  HTC Evo is a neat phone, but iPhone could so easily resolve GAL names AND instantly search email PLUS search Exchange for older emails that were not in the phone.....this is a great gap in the mail client.

The android OS really needs email search functionality from the home screen. This and the reply email signature are the two most important missing features for me.

Please add for the message body. Also would like to be able to search on the exchange server also. Thanks!

I am fast coming to the conclusion that Android is simply not corporate standard.  This issue, the fact that the Outbox seems to get stuck (not releasing sent emails) and other ridiculous issues are forcing me to switch to an iPhone.  Remember, these are the same issues which will show up on the Tab too.

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I have a TMobile G2 phone running the 2.2 OS. There is no function that I can find to search my yahoo mail using the email app that was provided with the phone. I tried all the tips above. None of them worked. Please correct this major deficiency!

You have to be able to search Exchange email....period. You may be selling a bunch, but I guarantee you (Google) that you are not selling more because of this.

Further when people realize this I am sure a decent percentage will leave. Remember that you may not be hearing anything (except this long thread) since people may not need to search their email often. But when they eventually do, and they will, they will be pissed. And on top of that; You're no comment, ignore it attitude, is insulting and will definitely hurt you in the long run.

I am glad I know this in advance so I can avoid your product. Take if for what it's worth.

So everyone knows, the HTC sense exchange has this function on the MT4G.  This is both good and bad.  I do have the MT4G and it works, but not a huge fan of the stock rom and have already switched it...but without a proper search I guess I have to go back.  We have to get the MT4G exchange app on other roms and phones.

This search functionality is present even in windows 6.x mobile versions.. Though an MS product since google does support exchange sync why cant it support search for the same.. U end up downloading tons of application for each small thing .. eg access to GAL address book, contacts , mail search all do have some applications but Why not have all that as a standard feature with one integrated mail app which links all contact information like (corporate mail, gmail, facebook, twitter etc etc)

I have a Nexus s configured with mail exchange: it is unacceptable that do not support research within the e-mail.

I have the ability to search the web, applications, contacts, gmail, but I can not look in the e-mail: amazing!

I recommend buying touchdown.  It doesn't make up for the fact that Google's integration is lacking basic features but it is definitely a cut above with some real benefits.  It has email search and filtering as well as GAL contact list that you can add contacts to local contacts. You can also get phone numbers from the GAL.  One of the main reasons I moved to it is that Android 2.2.1 enforces password every time the screen goes off instead of following the security policy of 3600 second lock that my blackberry had before.  With Touchdown, the corporate info (Touchdown DB's) is the only thing that requires a password and only enforces it based on the 3600 second policy.  It also has remote wipe and remote kill capabilities.  For N1 owners, you can setup custom trackball colors for calendar and email notifications.  Not the optimal solution but it works.

I purchased a MyTouch 4G after reading that it could search emails. It does not. On top of that it doesn't send emails if you're on Exchange 2010. Touchdown is fine but it doesn't allow for multiple email accounts. The search functionality is keeping me from switching all my phones to Android.

Tthe problem is not whether there is an App (Touchdown or Mozier), that
allows you to search mail in internal folders, but why in Android (Google)
is possible to search in web, in SMS, in photo, .... everywhere, but it is
not possible to search in emails!

I have my nexus S and I can believe you can`t search emails!!!

We need it.

It should be a must for a businness users.
Tks

It's really needed... Thanks

Yeah, this is a very big deal.  Come on guys, you are a Search company!

This functionality cannot be that difficult to implement. Please fix this soon.

I also wondering how come Google which is a "Search" company still didn't implement the search feature in the email app.

this is disgusting... Google and Samsung, Nexus S is a great phone but at the sametime it is uselss without the LED (WTF!), no SD card and no frigging email search???? you deserve to get your butts kicked by Steve Job...

It is really shocking why in 2.3 this feature is still missing. Especially from google.

I am glad to see I am not alone being frustrated with the lack of email search.

I recommended the droid for my DOCs, just to have them switch to the iphone and go back to blackberries because they can't search the emails. IF you want you phones to be taken seriously by business world, you need to add this functionality. Flash support is cool... email search is essential. Having to rely on a laptop to do a basic email search is beyond ridiculous. I bought android phone as a tool, not a toy. Please help it fulfill it's role.

I find it weird and unbelievable that 18 months after the missing feature was reported, google has been unable to add search functionality to corporate email search.

Using Nexus S, supposedly the top device out there. I tossed away my blackberry. Nos I'm thinking I will go back for a little more time until android is ready for Business.

To other people affected by this, have you found a workaround (or replacement app) that works on Nexus S? (note that Touchdown doesn't seem to work with my exchange server for some reason... keeps trying to activate activesync forever)

I wonder how many Xooms are being returned because the Android email functionality is not suitable for corporate/Exchange users.

I've been an anroid user for over a year. Guess what I just figured out? How to search sender and subject in the native email app!

While in your Inbox, press and HOLD the menu button. The soft keyboard (using Droid X) will open. Start typing what you are looking for and the Inbox will filter. Appears this only works on local emails, not the server.

Btw,  Touchdown still does a much better job searching including the server.  

@89 - Glad you found it.  That fixes half of my problem as usually the email that I am looking for is on my device, but yet i have over 200 emails in less than a week to sift through.  Thanks!   I swear I tried that not long after I got my DROID2.

The Droid X has a very adequate search capability as far as I'm
concerned. On the Droid X, while in the email app, if you simply hit the
search button, you get the soft keyboard and can search. I think it
works very well and works with Exchange email. I owned an original Droid
since day 1 and on it, there was no way to search so I used Touchdown.
But on the Droid X, I have been using the native email since I switched
to this phone back in October and am very happy with it. I am guessing
that Motorola added that feature, not Google, since there are still so
many complaints about the lack of email search capability in Android. I
prefer the way the Droid X does a global address book lookup to
Touchdown. Performance seems better to me also.

@kenneth & todl: you have found a motorola-developed extension to the native client. All plain vanilla stock androids, like the one that comes on Nexus one and Nexus S, is the one suffering the sore limitations on exchange/activesync support that render them unusable in a corporate environment.

From what I've seen so far, big OEMs like Samsung (Galaxy S), Motorola (Droids) and HTC have extended google's native corporate email client adding the basic missing stuff (searches, filtering (on the galaxy S at least) and so on.

The users that are stuck with this problem are curiously the ones that opted for a pure google/android experience. In my case (nexus s, currently) I have to use touchdown - most people in corporate environments won't be able to convince the IT department to allow them do this; plus I don't like 3rd-party email clients on the device - I'd much rather prefer a truly integrated exchange support for email/calendar and contacts, like the iphone folks have.

Google android team, please get your act together. Thanks.

Also, most vendors are running Honeycomb stock. The native email client on
Honeycomb is missing the search feature!!

I just got a Samsung Vibrant 4G and I'm happy to announce that it searches the body of emails. I've tried about 6 other phones and none of them did this. It can be done! All the other phones should be patched.

The Vibrant 4G is 2.2 BTW.

Evo 4g. No email search?  Ridiculous!

Still have my iPhone 3GS.  I am REALLY trying to like the Evo... It has a nice camera. Lol.

Can I complain about voicemail in this thread, lol.

PS: I composed this message first on the Android, but weirdness happened in the browser and couldn't scroll my text in the edit window. Being extra annoyed, I picked up trusty 3GS and bamm!  Turns out iPhone works better for complaining too... Who would of thunk?  Android fanboys, save it. I have Cyanogen. I know what I'm doing.

PPS: love the touchscreen feel. Don't care it's smaller.

Getting rid of Xoom if I cant do search on all mail folders. Can do this on Ipad. I Agree with other comments on this is funny no search options from a Google Device.

Just got the Motorola Xoom (very nice) and just figured out that Android Honeycomb version doesn't cater to the worker bees!  Such a miniscule simple feature that is required by any business is missing (email search of To/From, Subject or Body)!  The stupid thing about it all is that a company that touts being the search experts forgot to put thier expertise in the corporate email interface and then chose to NOT address the issue over the last three years.  Although I love the Xoom and the Honeycomb operating system I will likely return it along with the $250 in accessories due to such simple yet stupid oversight that has a huge impact on mobile business efficiencies.  What a shame.......now I must go stand in line with the other cattle to get my company and its mobile employees iPads!  That sucks!

Still not resolved in Android 2.3, this is really ridiculous for a search-based company.

I just switched from an i(stupid)phone to the new G2x from T-Mobile. I don't like apple's practices and so am ditching both AT&T and @pple, but I digress.

Having said that, I can't recommend any android phones now that I have discovered that they don't offer this basic functionality for corporate users. WOW, google, can we please get this issue resolved? it would be nice to be able to recommend a better alternative than BB. Luckily I discovered this problem while using it on my personal phone and not any corporate devices I recommend.

okay, the race is on... MS are adding this to WP7.5 ... http://windowsphone7community.uservoice.com/forums/84435-feature-feedback/suggestions/1720375-server-side-search-for-exchange

I add my frustrated disappointment to the comments expressed here also... Honeycomb has no email search yet either. Simply absurd. Doh!!

Search in Gmail app but not default email app for exchange. Hard to understand. I'm going back to iPhone cause of this (so is rest of office)

This feature is absolutely critical. Without it Android cannot claim to have a full working mail client. It would also be much better it I could set a number of days of email to sync/cache locally just like I can in the HTC mail client.

18 months and counting...looks like an EPIC FAIL!

This makes android a no-go for most corporate environments.

This is a very important shortfall, not just for business users but for all users.

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This is simply unacceptable. Lacking search function in email. I am very disapointed with Honeycomb.

Can't believe this issue was raised in 2009 and not yet fixed. It's a major issue for any serious email user

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I understand why this is being done: Google wants to control and profit from our data. I assume that gmail has search, but I removed gmail app and google sy c components from my tablet, I was so put off by forced sync when trying to access the marketplace.

Corporate uses: use google appa lmao.

Great. I hope this finally incorporates searching the server as well.

Great. I hope this finally incorporates searching the server as well.

I love android, and I love my new Galaxy Tab 10.1... except for this issue.  This is a deal breaker for me.  I need to be able to search my Exchange email from my tablet.  I will be returning this to the store and using my iPad, which has had this functionality for nearly two years.  I'll buy an Android tablet again when I can search my corporate email.

I find it a bit ridiculous that its taken this long for this feature to be considered, esp in the case of IMAP server, since a search command comes with RFC3501.  Fill your boots, man!

There is a free mail client called K-9 mail in the marketplace, wow... it has search and sync:)! Thanks Google at least ur open platform makes that others can do your job....:)

Pleeeeeeese, fix it... What takes 2 years to fix problem like this?

I second pretty much everything you guys already posted here. Search for exchange is crucial feature!

Lack of search is a deal breaker for me too. My Evo had it, thanks I guess to HTC. But my Nexus 4G lacks it and I require it daily.

Guys the only way to get real traction on this is to vote with your wallet. You all complain that it is a deal breaker, but if it were really, you need to return the phone and change to BB or iPhone. Called best buy today, and they are taking back this phone. I will now wait for the iPhone on Sprint because I don't like the HTC lineup right now and Google is not giving me email search.

Only just found this post. My friends HTC has search, I can't believe Google have not released this functionality. Unless it gets fixed asap, I'll be ditching my phone and telling everyone not to buy google.

Disturbing to see no response from Google on this...guys tihs needs to be fixed

Need this feature asap

I know google does not care but if i dont see this in 4.0 ICS i will be droping my android phones and tablets and switching to IOS or Windows this is just a joke....

This feature and others can be done as shown by HTC and their awesome email app.  If possible I would use that over Touchdown or K9 etc.  My HTC Evo is what converted me to Android but this issue is making me regret my Asus Transformer Purchase.  How can this simple little feature be missing in the stock honeycomb email app?

I need search email in my e-mail app.
This is one of the most commonly used function.

Bought an eeepad transformer last week to see if i could get things done. Android is just a showcase of what can be done and not what can you do. In the real world its useless and not having a basic search function in the standard email app is the final nail...

Even the homescreen search bar should integrate with every data on the tablet (calendar, email, files). I dont know if anyone has saw any demo of this function in ICS 4.0 but if this doesnt come out android is useless to real world/corporate usage.

I feel so frustrated that Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 still have NO search function for built in email client!! Unaccetpable

Yop, looks it's not in ICS too. There has to be some stupid reason why they don't want this feature in the stock email app. I just don't believe they forgot or are not able to fix this. They are kind of blackmailing us to switch to gmail and gmail app where we can use search feature. But that's not gonna happen! So please fix it or at least say us why we cannot have this basic feature...

We've had to standardize on iPhones as our smartphone platform due to the many missing features in Android.  I had hoped that ICS would support something as basic as search but Google doesn't appear to have any interest in this.

ICS has support for server-side search for Exchange 2007/2010; there's no local search currently.

I really can p,t believe that this issue is still unsolved?!? Ok, I can understand someone missed this issue launching Xoom and Honeycomb, but to leave the issue unsolved for such a long time?!? Do something about it, and do it quickly! Otherwise, you'll miss a lot of potential and existing customer...

Hrvoje

This is implemented in ICS.

I am using Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S both on 4.0.4 w/ MS Exchange 2003 - there is no search functionality within the Email App even hitting the search key on Nexus S touch sensitive buttons is useless.

There appears to be no solution except for using Touchdown, changing the company's emailing solution to Gmail, or working for a company that uses Google Apps - just so I can integrate my Android devices with my work life.

Still doesn't work with Jelly Bean on Google Galaxy Nexus. This is a serous shortcoming

Server search works.  Are you asking for local search?

Yes, please. Using Exchange Server 2003 which I don't believe has Server Side Search. Plus one cannot always count on being connected

Ah, yes.  This will be coming in the future.

Thanks for the continuing prospect of hope. Not to be too much of a wise guy but this request is going on 3 years now.

Believe me, I know.  Its sad.

I just bought two new galaxy Nexus phones for my wife and me, both were "upgraded" to Jellybean within 5 minutes of turning them on.  We have our two Android 2.3.4 HTC MyTouch 4G phones for sale on eBay.  

I can't search corporate email?  For real?  I could on the old phones... this is a very basic and needed feature.  I'm an IT manager who travels and need this feature.  Crap, one of the two phones have sold.  If this a Jellybean shortcoming, or a Nexus shortcoming?  

If I had known this I would NOT have bought the phones!

Server-side search is reported for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 servers;
do you know what kind of server you're connected to?

I'm connecting to Exchange 2003.  

Okay maybe I lied, maybe could not search in v2.3.4.. but I swear I could!  I may move my SIM card back to the old phone tonight to see if the search is there.  

A co-worker has v2.3.4 on his LG G2 X and he cannot search his corporate email, either.

So Exchange 2003 doesn't support server-side search (whereas later versions
do).   As far as other devices go, I have no idea what's supported in LG's
devices (most OEM's use their own apps, rather than ours).   Client-side
search is obviously desirable, and this is something we'll be working on.
Sorry, though.

Is there any hope of seeing IMAP server search as well? That's so frustrating that my old iPhone did that, and now when I'm on the road my IMAP email essentially becomes unreachable. I got stuck several times having to borrow a friend's iPhone to find an important email while on the road. This is pretty much ridiculous in 2012.

Its in ICS.

BYE BYE Galaxy Nexus, two new Iphones tomorrow, me and the wife, Google, you have had long enough.  Will be search corporate email in two days, sweet.

Enjoy!

On android 4.2.2 and still no search function, using with exchange 2003.

No search yet for older exchange servers in 4.3

This is a joke.  It's been years and still NO LOCAL SEARCH!

Wow! And here I was cussing at so many custom ROM makers such as Cyanogenmod, etc., when all along this Corp email search problem has been and still continues to be a native Android problem! SHAME ON YOU GOOGLE! What an awful demonstration of arrogance and lack of any love for those who would be your biggest adopters! At least own up to it in your marketing blurbs, so people don't waste their time.

The offline Corp Email search feature worked brilliantly in my (HTC) ICS 4.0.3 with Exchange Server 2003, though that email client had other nasty bugs, such as ALWAYS reverting to storing only 3 days of email locally. Barely tolerable, but I found a custom 4.0.4 ROM for my phone at XDA that fixed that. And now with JellyBean - all versions inc 4.3 - offline Corp email search is just COMPLETELY GONE! What a royal stinking disaster.

Sadly, this is the end of my love relationship with Android, as good and sleek as the platform has become in all other aspects with JellyBean. Back to the store goes my brand new Nexus 7 just purchased, and my next phone too will likely be an iPhone. Worse, every work colleague who I had bragged to so much about JB is receiving a link to this forum, and being told to desperately stay away from Android - primarily because it appears that Google doesn't seem to care very much about Corporate users!

Just updated to 4.4 on my Nexus 4. And stock e-mail application still DOES NOT FIND ANYTHING!!! Google, will you fix it? 4 years, no fix...

Come on Google, please tighten up and let us search our POP email. Unbelievable.

Google, why your stock mail application cannot search messages? It's idiotism... I'm forced to use third party IMAP client because of this..

Hi,

I just find out that while my HTC One's stock email app cannot search body of the email; Samsung Galaxy's mail App can do!!

Anyone has any idea, why Samsung can do this but HTC not while both uses the same android 4.3 platform ??

True it is a joke. Had an iphone before. Search in the email body was working perfect. HTC one no way.

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Corporate email search on Exchange 2010 does not work. Android 5.1 on Nexus 5

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