What is the search syntax?
Searches span all archived messages in a particular mailing list. More
complex searches are supported through advanced query syntax. Phrase search is
supported. So are fancy boolean operators like + - AND OR NOT (). Finally,
searches can be limited to a particular email field such as from, date,
subject or message. For example, one can find all messages from April 2002.
b" "battle royale"
b" +Jeff -Breidenbach -Marshall
b" (dualing OR dueling) AND banjos
b" from:"Mac Oglesby"
b" date:[19980101 TO 19981231] Breidenbach
b" date:200204*
To place a search form on a web page, use the following HTML. Don't forget
to replace [email protected] with the listname of interest.
<form action="http://www.mail-archive.com/search"; method=get>
<input type="hidden" name="l" value="[email protected]">
<input type=text name="q" value="" size=25>
</form>
The North American Sundial Society published an excellent reference
document describing search in more detail. Very advanced users may also wish
to
read the Lucene documentation, noting The Mail Archive defaults to the AND
conjunction operator.
Advanced users who wish to search the entire corpus for a RFC2822
Message-Id may use this form.
Message-Id:
e.g. [email protected]
