Searching lets you find messages, contacts appointments, Documents pages and files. You can search by specific words, by dates, time, URL, size, tag, whether or not a message has been read, whether it has file attachments or attachments of a particular file type and more.
ETCMail Collaboration Suite offers two search tools:
Search. This is a quick search that executes whatever search query is currently displayed in the search text box. The drop-down arrow at the left of the search box allows you to select which type of items to search for. You can select to search within messages, your contacts, including company contact lists, tasks, appointments and pages and files. This is an aid to quick searches as described in Quick-search settings.
Advanced search opens a new pane and makes it easier to execute more complex searches. You can save your advanced search queries and re-execute them at a later date.
If you are familiar with text-match searches or word-processing features such as the Find/Change in Microsoft Word, note that the content search in the ETCMail Web Client is slightly different from performing a literal string match.
ETC Collaboration Suite search syntax works as follows:
You can search for phrases, but each word within that phrase is matched literally by whole-word only. Spelling variants are not allowed. For example, if you search for bananas, messages with banana are not a match. You can search by domain name including the "." (period)
Search is not case sensitive; "South", "south", and "SOUTH" are all the same thing.
These special characters cannot be used in your search text. ~ ' ! @ # $ % ^ & * () _- + ? / { }[ ] ; : "
The asterisk * as a wildcard after a prefix is supported. That is search for do* returns items with the word dog, door, etc.
Searching for content will search the body of a message plus any (system-readable) file attachments it may have. A system-readable file attachment is a type of file that can be converted to HTML-viewable text. These include Microsoft Office documents (Word, PowerPoint, or Excel), as well as text files, but not image or audio files.
Go to the following topics for descriptions of how to create complex queries.
Query language description. This describes a list of keywords to use in your search.
AND versus OR Searches. Explains how to use And and Or in your search.