Help searching email in Shield

What do you want to do exactly?
"finding users by email" What do you mean by users? Not a user?

If you want to find and get a User object by an email, you can do it with UserModel::findByCredentials().

PHP Code:

$users = auth()->getProvider();
$credentials['email'] = '[email protected]';
$user = $users->findByCredentials($credentials); 


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