An email address is a string like "john.smith@jamestowncolony.com". An email name is a string like "Smith, John" which might appear paired with an email address in a message header, like this:
To: Smith, John <john.smith@majestowncolony.com>Email names are supplied by contact directories, which may differ from user to user, so it is possible for a unique email address to be associated with multiple email names.
To: Cristoforo Colombo <columbusc@expeditions.es>
To: Columbus, Christopher <columbusc@expeditions.es>It is possible than an mbox export of a message may have an email name that is not paired with an email address.
- Before searching for an email address or email name, you must set a current account, using the "Set Acccount" button on an account info page.
- You can search on a partial or complete email address or email name.
- The search string you supply will be automatically wild-carded at the beginning and end.
- Searches are case-insensitive.
- If you do not supply any search string, the search will match all email addresses used in the account.
- If a search string matches an email name but does not match an email address, then the search will return a result only if the email name is paired with an email address in at least one message.
The address info page gives attributes of the email address. Counts of the number of times an email address appears in a From, To, Cc, or Bcc field are linked to corresponding message lists.