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Search Emails

Search emails by sender, subject, date range, or body keyword.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
from_addrstring-Filter by sender address
subjectstring-Filter by subject (substring)
sincestring-Emails since date (DD-Mon-YYYY, e.g. 01-Jan-2025)
beforestring-Emails before date (DD-Mon-YYYY)
bodystring-Search for keyword in email body
folderstring-IMAP folder to search (default INBOX)
countstring-Max results to return (default 10)

How to use it

You normally trigger this by describing what you want in chat; the agent selects SEARCH_EMAILS automatically. For example:

Try saying
“use email to search …”

In a workflow

As a step in a multi-step workflow DAG:

json
{
  "id": "s1",
  "agent": "email",
  "action": "SEARCH_EMAILS",
  "args": {
    "from_addr": "…"
  },
  "depends_on": [],
  "outputs": []
}

Direct call

For scripting, call it directly via POST /execute_tool. Every tool returns { success, message, data }.

bash
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/execute_tool \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tool_name":"SEARCH_EMAILS","args":{"from_addr":"…"}}'

Part of the email plugin. Browse the full Plugin & Tool Catalog or the relevant feature guide.