How can I search for a substring of a email address or a subject

... without getting hits on other fields or content.
Mail 5.0 seems to have removed the ability to restrict your seach to particular fields.  What you get instead is the ability to select 'people' which should be called 'addresses' or 'subjects'.   There seems to be an assumption that the desired end point of a search is a single message.  But I regularly (several times a week) need to search for messages with certain characteristic and then move, copy or delete them. 
This makes mail completely unusable for me.  Searching has always been a weak point in mail now it is *much* worse.  Any before you ask yes I have submitted feedback to Apple (I have bitched about the searching in every release since OSX released).   What I have suggested is that they have an "enable advanced search" in the preferences > advanced menu.
I can see where Apple is coming from but turning MacOS into a *purely* comsumer product aimed at the masses is not the way to go.  They don't need to abandon the professional market in order to get the masses.  Those of us who need advanced functionality are perfectly capable of digging into preference to enable it if we are given the ability.
I wholely support having a simple system that, out of the box, can be operated intuitively by anyone but that is not incompatible with allowing more sophisticated functionality which might confuse less exprienced users from being activated via preferences.
What I really want is much more complex searching that allow me to find (for example) all emails to a particular domain that mention 'xxxx' in the subject.
If this trend continues I can see me installing linux on my new MacBook pro for work stuff. 
Russell, (who has been a Apple fan since well before Mas were invented )

rful011 wrote:
What I really want is much more complex searching that allow me to find (for example) all emails to a particular domain that mention 'xxxx' in the subject.
You can make some relatively advanced searches through Spotlight and in turn, the Mailbox search field in the Mail toolbar.
Try this for your example, type the following into the search bar in Mail:
To:domain.com then hit return. This will give you a search token on the To field.
Type subject:xxxx and hit return, this will give you a search token on the subject field

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