As noted
elsewhere, if you do a search and post the url from the address bar, the url will not be valid after a week.
Expanding on
Daniel S's post here are the parameters for
constructing a search url by hand.
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http://www.emaildiscussions.com/search.php?action=simplesearch
&query=
&searchuser=
&exactname=
&forumchoice=
&titleonly=
&showposts=
&searchdate=
&beforeafter=
&sortby=
&sortorder=
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&query=
the search string joined with "+"s
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&searchuser=
the username
&exactname=
"yes" = Match exact name
"no" = Match partial name
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&forumchoice=
"-1" = Search All Open Forums
"3" = Discussions about Email Services
"6" = -- Early Warning...
"7" = -- Email Help Needed!
"8" = -- Email Comments, Questions and Miscellanea
"15" = -- The Technical Zone...
"9" = -- Setting up/running an email service
"16" = Email Service Provider-specific Forums
"18" = -- Runbox Forum
"27" = -- FastMail.FM Forums
"17" = ---- FastMail.FM General Discussions
"28" = ---- Fastmail.FM Help and Current Issues
"29" = ---- Fastmail.FM Feature Requests
"30" = -- Google Gmail Forum
"5" = Miscellaneous
"23" = -- The Off-Topic Lounge
"12" = -- About this site...
&titleonly=
"" = Search entire posts
"yes" = Search titles only
&showposts=
"1" = Show results as posts
"" = Show results as thread
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&searchdate=
"-1" = any date
"1" = yesterday
"5" = a week ago
"10" = 2 weeks ago
"30" = a month ago
"90" = 3 months ago
"180" = 6 months ago
"365" = a year ago
This parameter seems to be mandatory
&beforeafter=
"after" = and newer
"before" = and older
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&sortby=
"title" = title
"replies" = number of replies
"views" = number of views
"lastpost" = last posting date
"poster" = poster
"forum" = forum
&sortorder=
"ascending" = in ascending order
"descending" = in descending order
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So for example, to find all threads that I have posted to in The Technical Zone forum ...
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/search.php?action=simplesearch
&searchuser=cybersmurf
&forumchoice=15
&searchdate=-1
put all the text on one line ...
..&searchuser=cybersmurf&forumchoice=15&searchdate=-1
[Addendum:]
Some parameters have changed with the new version of vBulletin.
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showpost.php?p=412887