How to get WDS and rules for search for literal "*" in subjects

[Ken Wallewein]

I've never seen anything indicating wildcards are support for
Outlook-related searching, but it appears they are, in some limited way.

I'm trying to create an email rule to automaticaly file inbound messages
that have "**ALERT**" in the subject line. The rules seem to ignore them.
If I do a WDS search, it does too, if I include the leading "**" in the
search string.

If I just search for "ALERT**", it finds any messages that have "alert" in
the subject line. "ALERT*P" finds any with "ALERTS" followed by any text
and a "P". So, clearly, it's using wildcards. Where is that documented?

More importantly, how do I turn it off? What if I want to search for a
literal asterisk? I tried to escape it with a preceeding "^", but that
didn't work.

/kenw
Ken Wallewein
K&M Systems Integration
Phone (403)274-7848
Fax (403)275-4535
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[neo [mvp outlook]]

<guess> if you need to search for an asterisk, the try escaping it with the
"\"</guess>

 

[Ken Wallewein]

Thanks, but nope, that didn't help either.

Microsoft writes some of the most useless help documentation anywhere.

/kenw