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How to stop 'Body' search to also match The base64 encoding of a body part or attached file?

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Whenever I am trying to search emails using a Quick Filter 'Body' search for some abbreviation, I get many more than expected results

eg I am searching for '8CU, I find emails that do NOT have the text '8CU' in the body but in the base64 encoding of an attached file:

--_002_7fcbd9023b934dd1a0704ab782050e9bakamaicom_ Content-Type: image/png; name="IDE Newsletter 2022 Final.png" ... Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABjMAAAjFCAYAAAAiME4KAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARzQklUCAgIrVtx/fp1f... x78AETC7OwcFhaX8Cuf+aTcp+4wFMZgmhaq9WaHxEN8BrloX36d5NfLTZs24a233hpo ...



or eg when searching for 'DEDF5' TB finds an email:

Message-ID: <2F17D411-7186-43C1-A2E3-DEDF5AE068CF@akamai.com> and Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="_003_2F17D411718643C1A2E3DEDF5AE068CFakamaicom_"; type="text/html"


and searching for 'FuSy' finds emails


Is there a way too make it skip searching for text in base64 encodings or similar hashes? Often the search results are still too many and I have to visually pare down the results

Whenever I am trying to search emails using a Quick Filter 'Body' search for some abbreviation, I get many more than expected results eg I am searching for '8CU'', I find emails that do NOT have the text '8CU' in the body but in the base64 encoding of an attached file: --_002_7fcbd9023b934dd1a0704ab782050e9bakamaicom_ Content-Type: image/png; name="IDE Newsletter 2022 Final.png" ... Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABjMAAAjFCAYAAAAiME4KAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARzQklUCAgIrVtx/fp1f... x78AETC7OwcFhaX8Cuf+aTcp+4wFMZgmhaq9WaHxEN8BrloX36d5NfLTZs24a233hpo ... or eg when searching for 'DEDF5' TB finds an email: Message-ID: <2F17D411-7186-43C1-A2E3-DEDF5AE068CF@akamai.com> and Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="_003_2F17D411718643C1A2E3DEDF5AE068CFakamaicom_"; type="text/html" and searching for 'FuSy' finds emails Is there a way too make it skip searching for text in base64 encodings or similar hashes? Often the search results are still too many and I have to visually pare down the results

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This is with 102.9.1 (64-bit) for MAC btw