Error when searching for a subject having colon

Question

I'm using Mandrill API to search for sent emails.

Everything works nice with this query:

{
    "key": "mandrill_api_key",
    "query": "subject:Announcement"
}

But this one does not work:

{
    "key": "mandrill_api_key",
    "query": "subject:Announcement:Customer has rejected ABC"
}

Because the query contains an additional colon. I tried to escape it by adding a \ or a \\ before the second one but does not help!

Thank you!

Answer 1

According to Mandrill documentation:

A Phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes such as "hello dolly".

So, you need to escape the double quotes and send the query as string in double quotes.

{
    "key": "mandrill_api_key",
    "query": "subject:\"Announcement:Customer has rejected ABC\""
}