I can't seem to search using leading wild cards.  For example, I have meta 
fields for parsing email, so that "from" is set for emails.  But I can't 
search as "from=*@osdl.org":

swish-e -w 'from=*@osdl.org' -f /data1/index_swish-e
# SWISH format: 2.4.2
# Search words: from=*@osdl.org
# Removed stopwords: 
err: Wildcard not allowed within a word
.

It doesn't even work without the meta tag:

swish-e -w '*@osdl.org' -f /data1/index_swish-e
# SWISH format: 2.4.2
# Search words: *@osdl.org
# Removed stopwords: 
err: Wildcard not allowed within a word
.


The code that makes this decision isn't very clear to me.  How can I fix 
this?

Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook
Open Source Development Lab
kees@osdl.org