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Old September 5th 08, 08:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Jack B
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Default Email search fails

I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more
info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?

I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that
I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack



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Old September 5th 08, 10:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Robert Aldwinckle
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Default Email search fails

"Jack B" wrote in message
...
I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more
info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?



Drag them to an empty directory and search them as text files.
If necessary you could rename all the .eml extensions to .txt
but I doubt that would be necessary.

If you're lucky you might find that Windows Search indexes
all text but I haven't studied WS enough to know what all it does...

Hmm... One problem is that many E-mail contain both
Plain Text and HTML versions of their content so searching for
URLs is probably not very conclusive. Instead I tried this search:

kinde folder:inbox "/html"

and it came up with E-mails, so it may be reasonable to assume
that the search was matching some indexed HTML... ; )



I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that
I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack



Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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  #3  
Old September 6th 08, 05:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Jack B
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Default Email search fails

Robert,

I can drag RE.dbx to an empty directory, but how exactly do I do the search
after that? There are 200 messages in that folder and each one has 1 to 25
properties listed, each with an html address. The entire dbx file is 36 MB.


Jack
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"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
...
"Jack B" wrote in message
...
I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails
are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for
more
info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?



Drag them to an empty directory and search them as text files.
If necessary you could rename all the .eml extensions to .txt
but I doubt that would be necessary.

If you're lucky you might find that Windows Search indexes
all text but I haven't studied WS enough to know what all it does...

Hmm... One problem is that many E-mail contain both
Plain Text and HTML versions of their content so searching for
URLs is probably not very conclusive. Instead I tried this search:

kinde folder:inbox "/html"

and it came up with E-mails, so it may be reasonable to assume
that the search was matching some indexed HTML... ; )



I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so
that
I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack



Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---



  #4  
Old September 6th 08, 06:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
PA Bear [MS MVP]
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Default Email search fails

Robert suggested dragging the individual messages (EML files) to a Windows
folder, not DBX files.

Jack B wrote:
Robert,

I can drag RE.dbx to an empty directory, but how exactly do I do the
search
after that? There are 200 messages in that folder and each one has 1 to
25
properties listed, each with an html address. The entire dbx file is 36
MB.


Jack
-----------------------------




"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
...
"Jack B" wrote in message
...
I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails
are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for
more
info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?



Drag them to an empty directory and search them as text files.
If necessary you could rename all the .eml extensions to .txt
but I doubt that would be necessary.

If you're lucky you might find that Windows Search indexes
all text but I haven't studied WS enough to know what all it does...

Hmm... One problem is that many E-mail contain both
Plain Text and HTML versions of their content so searching for
URLs is probably not very conclusive. Instead I tried this search:

kinde folder:inbox "/html"

and it came up with E-mails, so it may be reasonable to assume
that the search was matching some indexed HTML... ; )



I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so
that
I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack



Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---


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Old September 6th 08, 09:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Jack B
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Default Email search fails

Ahh -- okay.

Did that, but for some reason SEARCH fails to find the text UNTIL all the
file extensions were changed from .eml to .txt, which I did with a handy
utility called Bulk Rename Utility. Strange. Anyway, problem solved!


Jack
-----------------------------



"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
Robert suggested dragging the individual messages (EML files) to a Windows
folder, not DBX files.

Jack B wrote:
Robert,

I can drag RE.dbx to an empty directory, but how exactly do I do the
search
after that? There are 200 messages in that folder and each one has 1 to
25
properties listed, each with an html address. The entire dbx file is 36
MB.


Jack
-----------------------------




"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
...
"Jack B" wrote in message
...
I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails
are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for
more
info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?



Drag them to an empty directory and search them as text files.
If necessary you could rename all the .eml extensions to .txt
but I doubt that would be necessary.

If you're lucky you might find that Windows Search indexes
all text but I haven't studied WS enough to know what all it does...

Hmm... One problem is that many E-mail contain both
Plain Text and HTML versions of their content so searching for
URLs is probably not very conclusive. Instead I tried this search:

kinde folder:inbox "/html"

and it came up with E-mails, so it may be reasonable to assume
that the search was matching some indexed HTML... ; )



I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so
that
I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack



Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---



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Old September 5th 08, 10:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
PA Bear [MS MVP]
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Default Email search fails

No need to begin a new thread, Jack:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d4c03180e3b4da

Repost: OE Search cannot search on such MailTo links, only the Plain Text
content.
--
~PA Bear

Jack B wrote:
I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails
are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for
more
info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?

I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so
that
I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack


  #7  
Old September 6th 08, 11:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Robert Aldwinckle
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Default Email search fails

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
No need to begin a new thread, Jack:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d4c03180e3b4da

Repost: OE Search cannot search on such MailTo links, only the Plain Text content.



Robear,

Something's new. I *can* find real HTML strings using Ctrl-Shift-F.
This is with IE8b2 though. Do you have an IE7 you can test that observation
with? I'm thinking that we may be perpetuating some empirical facts
which were once true only in earlier versions of IE and OE.

E.g. I found I don't need to use WS 4.0 to find E-mail messages
by searching for the string: /HTML ; )


Robert
---


--
~PA Bear

Jack B wrote:
I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for more
info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?

I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so that
I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack




  #8  
Old September 7th 08, 12:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
PA Bear [MS MVP]
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Posts: 3,647
Default Email search fails

Will test that out soon enough. Thanks, Robert.

We're seeing some posts in both OE newsgroups (and a few in IE Beta)
describing some very odd behavior in OE once IE8B2's been installed.
--
~Robear


Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
No need to begin a new thread, Jack:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d4c03180e3b4da

Repost: OE Search cannot search on such MailTo links, only the Plain Text
content.



Robear,

Something's new. I *can* find real HTML strings using Ctrl-Shift-F.
This is with IE8b2 though. Do you have an IE7 you can test that
observation with? I'm thinking that we may be perpetuating some
empirical
facts which were once true only in earlier versions of IE and OE.

E.g. I found I don't need to use WS 4.0 to find E-mail messages
by searching for the string: /HTML ; )


Robert
---


--
~PA Bear

Jack B wrote:
I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails
are about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click
for more info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?

I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so
that I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is
there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack


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Old September 15th 08, 12:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
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"Jack B" ha scritto nel messaggio
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I have a RE folder in which I store emails from a Realtor. These emails
are
about properties for sale, and the addresses are hyperlinks (click for
more
info on the property).

Problem: If I do a search for an address, the search fails to find the
address -- apparently because the addresses are hyperlinks. How do I
overcome that?

I'm hoping someone knows how to export all those files in such a way so
that
I could do the search, or knows some other work around. Or is there
absolutely no way to do it?


Jack


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