Search Messages dialogue

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Search messages dialog is used to search contents of messages. 

On Search tab user enters text in Text to search field. The specified text is searched for in message headers and bodies. 

On Advanced tab it is possible to specify in which part of message to perform search. Text can be searched for in From, Subject, CC, From message properties, the whole Header text or Message body. 

Date block is used for date-limited searches. User can specify Start Date, End Date fields or both of them to provide time limitation for searches. Please note, that value in End Date field should always be later than value Start Date. 

If Include subfolders in search option is checked, search will be performed recursively in specified folder and its subfolders. Include *.eml and Include *.msg checkboxes allow limiting searches only for files of certain type.

Match case enforces that hits have exactly the same case as the query. If this is disabled, the search is case insensitive.

Match whole word only will only result in a hit if the match consists of an entire word, not if it's partial (for example (but not limited to), whitespace separated).

In Regular Expression, the query will be handled like a regular expression.

List of special characters:

. - any character

\w - word character (letter or digit)

\d - decimal digit

\s - white-space character (space or tab)

*- 0 or more matches of the previous element

+ - 1 or more matches of the previous element

? - 0 or 1 match of the previous element

[ ] - group of symbols, for example [ABC]+ CAB - matches, CAD - doesn't match

\ - escape character "\." if you need dot symbol

| - OR operator, th(e|is|at) matches "the" and "this" in "this is the day"

After Match whole word only and Use regular expressions checkboxes are set to be active, Regular expression will be searched among separate words of text that meets searching results. Modifiers (‘^’, ‘$’, \b) will be removed in case they were previously used. 

For more detailed criteria of searching for messages, please see filtering options of Mail list.