# Problem with AOL email search function

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-aol-email-search-function/699671>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 26, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-aol-email-search-function/699671 "2014-09-26T20:05:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-aol-email-search-function/699671/1 "2014-09-26T20:05:07Z")

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I used to be able to do word searches in my Sent Mail folder and find stuff going back years. Recently it’s only found things going back a month or so, and sometimes not even that far. I haven’t adjusted any of my settings. How can I go back to the good old days of being able to find whatever I wanted, no matter how far back?

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**Author:** ![sidbinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sidbinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidbinks)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-aol-email-search-function/699671/2 "2017-03-22T05:07:49Z")

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Hi there, i am suddenly having the exact same problem…did you ever figure out why you suddenly couldn’t search back more than a few weeks? this has just begun happening to me. I called AOL and they said to erase some of my “old mail” so i erased ALL of it…10,000 emails, and it didn’t help at all…i can’t search mail more than 11 days ago.