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I barely find anything when using thunderbird search. Is that just me?

• mr_machine 3y ago
  Definitely not just you. Often, though I know exactly the info required to find a message, Thunderbird comes up with no results. I've found that "repairing" the containing mailbox renders the message findable. Not sure when things got this bad, but I can well recall in the past Thunderbird's search being fast, thorough, and reliable.
• nologic01 3y ago
  its takes a few seconds parsing all the accounts/folders (as I have an indecent amount of email) but it never had any trouble finding things
• janci 3y ago
  Search never works for me. I use quick filter. It's slow, but works.
• Aachen 3y ago
  Yeah, the "normal" search is for the desperate. Quick search is where it's at. Keeps the view sane and you select which fields to search (subject, recipients, body), the downside is that you have to know which folder to look in, which can also be an upside to narrow it down (I know that's also possible in the search UI but this is easier)
• folmar 3y ago
  Some years ago it used to work great, but then it changed to searching for words only. Or so it appears.
• throwaway447 3y ago
  Use recoll