My mail inbox only shows about 10 days of mail. Need to search back a few months. How do I do that?

I am wanting to search for old mail from my inbox. Right now it only shows abut 2 weeks of recent mail.When I do a "mail search", I cant find what I am looking for. How do I have my inbox mail automatically show more that 2 weeks of the latest mail. I would like it to show a month or more.

There are a couple of things that could be deleting mail messages.
In Mac's Mail app click on the Mail > Preferences menu item. Now select your offending mail account from the Accounts list.  Now click on Advanced.  There is a setting to "remove copy from server after retrieving message."  The Mail app will delete messages from your email service based on this setting.  This will not delete messages from your computer.
If you are losing messages from your computer then click on  Rules in Mail's Preferences, then check each "rule" to see if there is one that could be deleting messages. Click on the rule and then  on Edit to see the rules criteria
Example of a rule that would delete messages:
If neither of these is your problem I suggest you check with Yahoo to see if there is a setting  on their service that could be deleting messages.
Dan

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