I have a business conversation going on and I'm trying to find a particular message I'm sure was part of it. Let's say it includes the term "widget". But the problem is there were (for example) 3 messages with that term. Now by itself that would be fine, I'd search for that term and see three results and read them and find the one I want. But the problem is that one of those messages had a very long back-and-forth so there's a long re: history and that term is repeated each and every time. So when I search I get 590 matches instead of 3.
I want to search without including all the quoted replies. So that only the typed messages is included in the search.
Possible?
Best Answer
You might be able to do something with the negation filter. Many (most?) email clients add something like "Re:" or "Fw:" to the subject when replying or forwarding a message.
So perhaps something like this would suit:
This should return all messages with "widget" in the message but exclude messages with "re:" in the subject of the message.
It's not perfect, but at least in my tests it did reduce the number of search results I got back.