Searching special characters

he @Kirt

the main question is - do you search in the message field or do you search in a different field?

The message field is analyzed field that means that the content is split into terms based on the active tokenizer.

Overview:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/analysis-tokenizers.html

Default Tokenizer
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/analysis-standard-tokenizer.html

As this is based of words (see links above) your dots are not searchable. Because they are no words.

Should the content be in a non analyzed field where the content is simple seen as a string, your search would be possible.

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