I can easily find all posts by current members of my group. For members who have changed their email addresses, or are no longer members, I would like to be able to find all messages that they posted. Search does not search the first line in messages that shows the member's name and email address, e.g., Curtis A. Conley <thissubscriber @ hisdomain.com>

Thus, I can't find messages by searching for "thissubscriber @ hisdomain.com"?-- is there a way around this?? Or any other way of locating posts made by former members?

[Email address genericized by Moderator.]?

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 02:17 PM, Stan Garfield wrote:

Search does not search the first line in messages that shows the member's name and email address, e.g., Curtis A. Conley <thissubscriber @ hisdomain.com>

Stan -- That's correct...the engine indexer operates on the subject line and message body only.

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Using-the-Search-Engine

Thus, I can't find messages by searching for "thissubscriber @ hisdomain.com"?-- is there a way around this?? Or any other way of locating posts made by former members?

If you know his posterid, or can find one of his messages, yes. See?/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/68835192#26422?for details.

Premium groups also have access to Past members via the Member List and you can look up his activity history (including messages posted) that way.

Bruce

Thanks, Bruce.

The Past Member list does not work for past members from a migrated Yahoo group. It only shows members who left after the group was migrated to Groups.io.

Is there a unique posterid available for members who left before the group as migrated? If not, any other ways of doing this?

Regards,
Stan

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 04:50 PM, Stan Garfield wrote:

The Past Member list does not work for past members from a migrated Yahoo group. It only shows members who left after the group was migrated to Groups.io.

Is there a unique posterid available for members who left before the group as migrated?

Posterid is the primary subscription identifier. A single account/email address can have multiple posterids, one per group.?

The way I understand it, only accounts that are 1) currently active in your Yahoo group and 2) not in Bouncing status, are transferred. At that time, a groups.io account is created for each of those email address (if not already present) and a posterid in your group is assigned.

Later in the same transfer, incoming messages are compared against those email addresses and if any matches are found, they are mapped to the corresponding posterid. If there is no corresponding email address among the subscribers, the posterid is left empty.

Something similar happens if a person leaves the group. This leaves such messages orphaned, as far as these kinds of searches are concerned.

If not, any other ways of doing this?

As I mentioned earlier, for activities that occurred after the transfer, you can search the Activity Log for his email address. But for posts that occurred before the transfer, for people who are not current subscribers, I really think you're stuck with sig line content or quoted text or other such references that may have appeared in the message body.

Regards,
Bruce

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 04:50 PM, Stan Garfield wrote:

If not, any other ways of doing this?

Stan -- One more thought...you can always export your messages (Admin>Settings>Export Group Data button at the top). The resulting mbox file does contain header information. Open it in a text editor, and do a search on that for the desired search string[s]. Mbox files can also be opened in Thunderbird or Apple Mail and probably some other email clients, too.

Not particularly convenient, but if you find yourself in desperate need of this, it might serve.

Bruce

Thanks, Bruce.

What is the process to submit an enhancement request to Groups.io?? I want to request enabling search for the email address used when posting.

Regards,
Stan

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That works for current members, but not for former members from when the group was in Yahoo. The email addresses of those former members are displayed in their old messages, but this field can't be searched for.

Hi Jeff

Not the original enquiry but :-

Thanks for this, its a very helpful section

My problem is an ex-subscriber doesn't show there

It also has a tab for +owner messages again very helpful

Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)