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Words inside indexed emails or attachments which are a combination of alphanumeric (letters, digits) and non-alphanumeric characters (white space, line break, delimiter or other control characters), may be returned in search results when searching for the alphanumerical part only.

For instance, when searching for firstname, firstname.lastname and lastname, e-mails containing the word firstname.lastname will be returned.

Commonly occurring characters are:

Period (.)
Comma (,)
Colon (;)
Hyphen (-)
Underscore (_)
AT-Sign (@)
Slash & Backslash (/,\)
Null character (NUL)

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-Words of indexed emails or attachments, which are a combination of alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters (white space, line break, delimiter or other control characters), may get returned as a search result when searching for the alphanumerical part only.
+Words inside indexed emails or attachments which are a combination of alphanumeric (letters, digits) and non-alphanumeric characters (white space, line break, delimiter or other control characters), may be returned in search results when searching for the alphanumerical part only.
-For instance is the word <tt>test_1234</tt> is returned when searching for  <tt>test</tt>, <tt>1234</tt> and <tt>test_1234</tt>.
+For instance, when searching for <tt>firstname</tt>, <tt>firstname.lastname</tt> and <tt>lastname</tt>, e-mails containing the word <tt>firstname.lastname</tt> will be returned.
-Other often occurring characters are:
+Commonly occurring characters are:
+* Period (.)
 * Comma (,)
 * Colon (;)
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 * AT-Sign (@)
 * Slash & Backslash (/,\)
-* Null Character (NUL)
+* Null character (NUL)
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