Boolean search in apple mail help needed

i tried this boolean search in apple mail - in an account that had these people, but it didn't work....
Q: what am i doing wrong?
to:[email protected] or to:[email protected]

Maybe this page can help you construct complex searches in Mail:
*http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/879*
I noticed this line in the page:
+Note: When searching Mac Mail does not use some frequently used wildcard searches. Use of the asterisk * or the syntax teresa@somewhere returns no matches.+

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