PowerMail Engineering said: >>Why does a search for the pattern "[exim]" in the subject, include >>messages with only "exim" in the result? > >Because indexing only handles words, and [ is not considered as a word. >The quotes (or "includes the exact phrase" option) are used to search >consecutive words, not arbitrary patterns. But "the exact phrase" does suggest anything that PowerMail can store. Why exactly isn't a word considered to be "a string of characters not separated by space"? I mean some chars not in words that can be pronounced still convey meaning.
Is this an encoding issue? I thought anything allowed by Unicode would be stored in an index. Not so with FoxTrot? Could it be otherwise? Reviewing the change log at <http://www.ctmdev.com/documentation/ change_log.html> it says "Supports the following search criteriae: · Entire message content" that could lead someone to believe that all char combination of words in the message would be indexed. Perhaps the omits in place should be made more clear? >There is no escape character. An escape character would be helpful if what was escaped could be found. This is not possible to add at this stage? >>I'm not sure I agree with >>this philosophy of not indexing all chars, nor do I enjoy its >>undocumented status. What's the deal here? > >FoxTrot indexing is documented. Yes, it may very well be somewhere ( I didn't find it googling), but it's not documented in PowerMails' online help. It could be in there in laymans' terms. It says now "Words and numbers are taken into account", but it's not clear in the context what a word is not according to the index process. This could be reflected in there at some point in future, I think. >>Can anyone report how this particular problem work under Tiger? > >Spotlight may have a different definition than FoxTrot of what to index >as a word, but if you need exact pattern searches, indexed search is not >what you need. Indices can't hold strings (as in any string) by definition? Or just by a convention used by some including you? PM 5.2.1 | OS X 10.3.9 | Powerbook G4/400 | 768 MB RAM | 30 GB HD
