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Searching in Thunderbird takes forever, sometimes > 30 seconds. Searching in Gmail takes < 1 second. This is why I use a web client.
by cryptoz 16y ago
Searching in Thunderbird takes forever, sometimes > 30 seconds. Searching in Gmail takes < 1 second. This is why I use a web client.
- gvb 16y agoDo you have the "Global Search and Indexer" turned off? It is found in Preferences / Advanced tab / General - disable and then restart Tbird. Global search is an evil POS.
- _delirium 16y agoWell, if you turn it off, you no longer incur the periodic indexing overhead, but then the search really will be slow. With global indexing on, I can search tens of thousands of messages in several hundred folders in a few seconds; with it off, a search over all folders will never return and I have to kill TB.
- scrod 16y agoSearching in Mac OS X's Mail.app is instantaneous, because the message content and metadata are already included in your Spotlight database.