Looking for Mail wildcard search

Hi All,
I have an incredible amount of data in my Mail app and would like to speed up my sorting of it.
Emails are filtered to folders by mail rules depending on the mail subject but I'd like to manually filter them further,
rules can not accommodate this. My manual sorting is based on small strings of info in the content of the email.
Basically what I'm looking for is a search wildcard that allows me to use * or ? as any character. I have tried both and they
don't work. Is there another wildcard character I can use?

wirenik wrote:What is that reply supposed to mean?
means that I'm tired of such comments
of course, you're always dependent on the company/community/developers of the software... (else there would be no software)
with the sentence "I want to be independent from .." I meant, that I don't want to use particular services offered by a company
with e.g. horde, I just grab the latest version, install it on my server and it works.
if the project dies - doesn't matter, it still runs on my server and I can export all my data (and re-import it into another software)
the mails are on the IMAP server I choose, and the other things are stored in my database
makes sense, doesn't it?
Last edited by Eliteforce (2008-09-14 10:02:51)

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