Finding Emails with a Period in Them

David Aaron Fendley

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Mar 24, 2015, 2:29:00 PM3/24/15

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I'm needing to searhc for currenty values (i.e. "14.99").

Searches containing a period return zero results. I can find the email
with just "14". I've tried using backslash to escape the period.

How do I find messages with a literal period?

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Chris Boo

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Mar 30, 2015, 4:43:56 AM3/30/15

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Hi,

I bumped into the same problem today. Any luck finding a solution?

Cheers,

Christian

Dirk-Jan C. Binnema

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Mar 30, 2015, 5:11:45 AM3/30/15

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Mu/mu4e uses the Xapian database engine, which indexes the text, and sees
'.' (and few other things) a word separators. Mu tries a few tricks, but
ultimately this cannot easily be fixed without changing Xapian; see e.g.
http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/113

Sorry...

Dirk.

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