How to Find Someone's Email Address

Email has become the primary means of online correspondence today. People around the world now make use of their emails to get in contact with friends, relatives and colleagues from all points of the planet.

It has replaced "snail" mail since it provides a more convenient and faster means of correspondence with other people as long as they have a PC and an internet connection.

And just like the physical mail of yesteryears, emails also make use of special addresses in order to send messages back and forth. If you wish to send an email to a friend, you may need to have his or her email address to do that.

As you make use of email correspondence more frequently, you will realize that you might be compiling quite a list of email addresses along the way. By a year's time, you might already have a list of hundreds of email addresses to sort out, depending on how often you use email for correspondence.

With a huge number of email addresses of friends and colleagues that you have amassed through the years, it might sometimes get a bit difficult in looking for a specific email address that you need.

The task alone of finding email addresses can become pretty challenging if you have not heed the call of organizing them once upon a time when they just number in the dozens. But worry not. Here are some tips that might help you find those email addresses from that jumbled lot that you call your email account.

If you are looking for a certain email address of a friend that you have had previous email correspondences with, there are many ways of which you may be able to find them.

Address book of your email account 

First, you can try looking for them in the address book of your email account. The email address book is a convenient way from which you may be able to organize tons of email addresses. Too bad not all people make effective use of them.

Some people fail to make use of the email address book to organize their growing list of email addresses. It can be as easy as clicking on the "add to address book" button if one comes up when sending or receiving email. But unfortunately, some people still fail to take advantage of this wonderful tool for organizing email addresses.

It would do you good to add new email addresses of people you know in your virtual address book. This would allow you to easily and conveniently search for the specific email addresses that you are looking for.

In cases when you failed to add an email address of a friend or colleague in your account's address book, all is not lost. If you have previously received or sent an email to this particular friend or colleague, the email address might likely be still in your email inbox. This would depend if you do frequent deletions of previous emails or keep them all inside your inbox.

If you are the type of person that keeps emails on your inbox, then your chances of finding that email address would be high. But then, you might find yourself dealing with hundreds and even thousands of different emails in order to look for that one particular email address. It is a good thing that most email accounts have a search feature.


Search feature of your email inbox

You can try to use the search feature of your email inbox to look for any particular email address that is not included in your virtual address book.

It can be as simple as typing the name of a friend or colleague into the search box and hitting enter. The search engine will then list past emails that either contains the name of your friend or colleague and, quite possibly, their email address.

You may also do it the other way. If you remember the actual date when you sent out or received a particular email to the address that you are looking for, you may also type in the date in question and the search engine would list down all the emails that you sent or received during that particular date. It is quite a simple yet effective way of finding email addresses in your inbox.