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How to search for particular email addresses on desktop Thomas 06-08-2005
Posted by Thomas on June 8, 2005, 3:14 am
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I would like to do the following:

Get a list of all emails send to me from a particular domain.

Like all mail from microsft.com. (so e.g. msn@microsft.com, tom@microsoft.com
etc.)

Does anybody have any simple suggestions?


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Posted by Steven Ickman [MSFT] on June 7, 2005, 7:01 pm
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Thomas,

You should be able to just query for:

from:"microsoft.com"

The @ symbol is seen by the indexer as something called a “breaking
character”. That basically means that the indexer sees everything to the
right or left of the @ as a separate word. The indexer contain a language
specific component called a word breaker that tries to be smart about finding
the words within compound items like an e-mail address.

From a matching standpoint the we should be able to find any complete word
so “from:microsoft” should find any email address in the form of
“foo@microsoft.com”. And we also support finding the beginning of words so
“from:micro*” would also find any mcirosoft.com addresses but it would also
find any microtech.com addresses as well.

Hope that helps.

-Steve [MSFT]

"Thomas" wrote:

> I would like to do the following:
>
> Get a list of all emails send to me from a particular domain.
>
> Like all mail from microsft.com. (so e.g. msn@microsft.com, tom@microsoft.com
etc.)
>
> Does anybody have any simple suggestions?
>
>
> --------------= Posted using GrabIt =----------------
> ------= Binary Usenet downloading made easy =---------
> -= Get GrabIt for free from http://www.shemes.com/ =-
>
>


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