# Alle berichten zoeken als beheerder
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [21 september 2020 om 21:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766 "2020-09-21T21:46:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Shawn\_Kirsch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shawn_Kirsch)
#### Post date: [21 september 2020 om 21:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/1 "2020-09-21T21:46:31Z")
I had someone tell me some fishy stuff going on in some PM’s, but I do NOT know who is doing it. As an Admin, I’m trying to find it. I can’t search all the messages in our community can I? Other than clicking a whole bunch of names and trying to find the perp?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [21 september 2020 om 21:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/2 "2020-09-21T21:59:28Z")
If you know a bit of the PM’s content, you can use [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) and do SQL queries: [Discourse Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-plugin/32566)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [21 september 2020 om 22:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/3 "2020-09-21T22:48:36Z")
Do you have keywords to search for? Something like this seems like a “show me the last 25-50-75 PMs” situation, perhaps?
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### Author:  [@Shawn\_Kirsch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shawn_Kirsch)
#### Post date: [22 september 2020 om 00:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/4 "2020-09-22T00:08:08Z")
Yea that would work. I do have some keywords, but it could also be hard to find just by keyword. Hence a \* search too.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [22 september 2020 om 00:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/5 "2020-09-22T00:09:26Z")
I suggest looking at the PMs of the most recently active users to start with: `/admin/users/list/active`
Beyond that, a [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) query would be fairly simple to construct since you are limiting your view to PM body text, ordered by time descending.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [22 september 2020 om 00:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/6 "2020-09-22T00:18:21Z")
Can you elaborate on fishy stuff? Is this high volume messaging? Inappropriate content? Off-site links?
It’s far easier to help you cast a net if we know what you’re trying to catch.
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### Author:  [@Shawn\_Kirsch](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shawn_Kirsch)
#### Post date: [22 september 2020 om 22:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/8 "2020-09-22T22:41:36Z")
Thanks for all the help this is what makes this product truly unique and great. Will let you know how it goes.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [22 oktober 2020 om 22:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/9 "2020-10-22T22:53:41Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [24 november 2020 om 22:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-all-messages-as-an-administrator/164766/10 "2020-11-24T22:06:06Z")
Note we now have `in:all-pms` for this feature:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11280](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11280)