I'm trying to do a find against a folder, on the "to" field, against a bunch
of e-mails. If the "To" has one e-mail, it works fine. If it has more than
one (e.g., ; ; ) it doesn't work.

Example:


_MailItem mailItemTest = oItems.Find("[To] = '") as _MailItem;

(The above oItems points to a valid folder).

So with this example, any messages in the folder that have a single "to" of
" will return the first found (and FindNext the next). If any
of the messages in the folder contain " and any other e-mails
in the to, that message is not returned.

I'm trying to find all e-mails with a "to" of a specific address - but most
will have that one plus others.

Any ideas here? I tried wild carding it, without luck. I've written code
to iterate through and do my own search, but the folder can have a lot of
e-mails, so that is very slow and I quickly run into the outlook connect
limit.

Thanks,
-Greg

Outlook version? Even if this isn't for Outlook 2007 where you can use the
new content searching you can use SQL syntax in a Find/Restrict by prefacing
the SQL search with "@SQL=".

In that case you use the DASL property tag, so it would be
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x0E04001E" or
"urn:schemas:httpmail:displayto". The filter would look something like this:

string filter = "@SQL=" + "\"" + "urn:schemas:httpmail:displayto" + "\"" + "
LIKE %' ";

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"GregR" wrote in message
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I'm trying to do a find against a folder, on the "to" field, against a
bunch
of e-mails. If the "To" has one e-mail, it works fine. If it has more
than
one (e.g., ; ; ) it doesn't
work.

Example:


_MailItem mailItemTest = oItems.Find("[To] = '") as
_MailItem;

(The above oItems points to a valid folder).

So with this example, any messages in the folder that have a single "to"
of
" will return the first found (and FindNext the next). If
any
of the messages in the folder contain " and any other
e-mails
in the to, that message is not returned.

I'm trying to find all e-mails with a "to" of a specific address - but
most
will have that one plus others.

Any ideas here? I tried wild carding it, without luck. I've written code
to iterate through and do my own search, but the folder can have a lot of
e-mails, so that is very slow and I quickly run into the outlook connect
limit.

Thanks,
-Greg