Method of searching for electronic mail in portable cellular phone and electronic mail searching program for portable cellular phone

摘要

A method of searching for an e-mail (electronic mail) is provided which is capable of performing a search on all pieces of e-mail for a specified character string or a graphical character (icon) in a portable cellular phone within a short time and in a reliable manner. The method employed in the portable cellular phone having a function of transmitting and receiving e-mail includes steps of storing transmitted and received e-mail in an e-mail storing area, of having an e-mail searching block perform a search around the e-mail storing area for at least one desired e-mail by a specified character string or a specified graphical color representing the graphical character contained in the e-mail and of displaying one line containing the specified character string or the graphical character existing in detected e-mail on a screen of a displaying device and displaying, when any one line is selected from various pieces of one line being displayed, a whole content in the e-mail containing the one line on the screen of the displaying device.