# CercaPosta — Documentation

> CercaPosta documentation supports both learning and everyday use. Choose a tutorial to practise, a how-to guide to complete a task, a reference to look up a detail or an explanation to understand how things work. Every page is also available in Markdown, with the same content as the web version.

Publisher: WpWeb S.r.l. Reviewed: 2026-09-17. Public product documentation; no access to private email archives. HTML and Markdown are generated from the same editorial sources.

## Tutorials

- [Your first search](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/tutorials/first-search/index.md): Find a familiar message, narrow the results and open an attachment in your CercaPosta archive.
- [Your first AI answer with sources](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/tutorials/first-ai-answer/index.md): Ask about a document in your archive and verify the answer by opening the cited source.

## How-to guides

- [Import a PST, EML, mbox or ZIP archive](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/how-to/import-archive/index.md): Upload an archive from the web client, check progress and resume an interrupted upload.
- [Choose which emails AI can use](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/how-to/control-ai/index.md): Control AI chat, semantic indexing and reply tracking by user, source and folder.

## Reference

- [Supported sources and formats](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/reference/sources/index.md): Look up email connectors, archive import formats and limitations to consider before ingestion.
- [Search operators](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/reference/search-operators/index.md): Syntax and examples for senders, recipients, dates, folders, attachments and message sizes.
- [Clients and deployment options](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/reference/clients-deployment/index.md): Web, mobile and desktop clients, managed cloud, private deployment and AI configuration.

## Explanation

- [Why the archive is not a mailbox mirror](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/explanation/archive-sync/index.md): Understand incremental synchronisation, deduplication and what happens when messages move or disappear.
- [How AI uses and cites sources](https://cercaposta.it/en/docs/explanation/ai-sources/index.md): Text and semantic search, answer generation, access controls and the limits of citations.