How do I do a literal search in mac mail?

Lets say you have 11 mail messages in a particular folder and you want to search for messages with only this text "192.168.1.1" and 5 of them contain this text. When you type the text into the top right of the mail viewer window only three are returned. I am guessing this is because the periods throw off the search algorithm because they are special characters. How do I use these special characters as literal characters in my search so that it will return the full results list?

Well, if you are using the search subject criteria, then it will not find the messages when using the quotation in the search box since there is no quotation in the subject field. It will find the "-" sign in the subject field as part of the search box when searching the subject field.
But if you are not specifing the subject as search criteria (or any other specific search field), then using the quotation before the minus in the search box works. It will search the entire message inclucing the subject field and return the messages. "-12345 returns only those messages, while "12345 returns both the 12345 and the -12345.
Also noted, messages found showed only the sent in the message list. After finding the messages using "-12345 search, it showed the sent messages (using the All mailbox search selected). Message pane showed sent. Clicking on a message showed the inbox in the viewer pane. So, in the mailbox list, I selected the inbox instead of "ALL" while still in the search mode and all messages are there. Then switching to the sent mailbox, all were there also. So, it's not showing like a conversation view in the message field, even though the ALL mailbox was selected. So, you can't tell that there are more than one of the same message in different mailboxes.
Useful info from all this: If you need to search for specific item not especially in a specific field, then use the quotation mark to start and search the entire message.

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