>>Have we lost the ability to search previous messages as a non PUTM?
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>>When I tried to do a search for one of my previous messages (so I could answer someone's question) I get a list of the messages but the date of the message is 'Only available to PUTM members'
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>>So how can we search & retrieve a message?
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>Are you talking about the Search icon from the toolbar?

Yes,

Press the search icon of the toolbar (the little world picture with a magnifying glass)
all the results it returns have the message subject but both the date and link says only available to PUTM