I was trying to search on a result in the email body that should be unique for each drive that I backup. However, the search is returning unexepected emails.
This is my search criteria.
This particular search item only appears once in each email based on the drive being backed up. The drive being backed up is actually the last letter in the search. However it appears that eMClient’s just retruning the entire list of emails. There are 1,933 emails in the folder and that’s how many the search returns.
If you need to find an exact phrase, you need to put it in quotes “”
But also, the search does not include special symbols, those are filtered out.
If you need more details on how the Search works, we have added a section in our Documentation which goes in more details: eM Client 10 Documentation | Search
I put my search in quotes and it’s still returning unexpected emails which if using the document search F4 cannot find the quoted text in the email yet shows in the list of emails making up the search results.
eM Client gives me the same problem. When I search for an uncommon first name, like “felix”, and limit it to the body, I get a bunch of messages that have no mention of felix. Quotes do not help for me either.
In this case, by special characters I meant commas, periods and other punctuation will be filtered out. Wildcards can work in some cases (in headers fully, in body at the end), but the colon in the search in this thread’s example will be filtered out and not used as part of the searched term.
What are the settings for your search (drop down under magnifying glass)?
Is server-side search enabled? If so, try turning it off and see if the same issue happens, in case the wrong results were given by the mail server.
If that does not change it, please let us know what version of the app this happens with.
That would depend on the server, different ones could have the feature implemented differently - perhaps this mail server supports server search from 3rd party apps (not all do), but not exact phrase with the quotes “”, for example, in which case it might be returning all messages with words search, is, not and working in your example.
