Thanks for the reply.

Yes, that's what I would like it to do for me as well. trouble is it doesn't. Any recommendations?

I am using Windows 7 and the opera mail as standalone client.

It is impossible to find any email using the 'search email' tab when selecing All Messages 'Received'. It is searching but no results appear, or no filter is applied at all showing all my mails. This used to work perfecly in the inbuilt email client.

is this a known bug?

thanks