You can spy the search bar and there you can filter the mails like sender mail id , subject and isread or not. From there you will get the mail what ever you want even it was in subfolders also
Yes. You can copy rows from collection by using Index of the particular row.
use VBO: Collection Manipulation
Action: Copy Rows
In Copy Rows action you can mention Index of the row and also you can mention how many rows to copy from that index ...