Lotus Notes has a great indexing tool, that can even index attachments. When you need to perform a quick search, you can, and the results are very accurate. However, when it comes to searching for e-mail between sent or received between certain dates.
The Notes interface provides a ‘Date’ button to construct a date search. however, this provides the ability to search for only documents created or modified between certain dates. The created and modified dates of a notes email is similar in effect to searching using file modified and created dates. The dates can be changed by many processes, including a user simply changing a draft email, or by backup or archive tools that move the email or document around. Therefore this cannot be a reliable way to search for a date range.
The correct method to use would be to utilise the ‘Field’ button, to select the standard Notes fields that relate to ‘sent’ or ‘received’ dates. There are more than one or two of these fields.
the correct fields to use will depend on the way your Dominio and Notes are configured. Typically though, the relevant fields are PostedDate (similar to Sent Date), deliveredDate (similar to received date) and ForwardedDate. This, combined with created and modified dates, should allow a search that catches all of those emails relevant to your date range. Let me know if you have any questions!
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