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Unfortunately, I dislike thunderbird with a passion. In my anecdotal experience, its search is terrible - not to mention that there are two of it: a search opti
by laborat 3y ago
Unfortunately, I dislike thunderbird with a passion. In my anecdotal experience, its search is terrible - not to mention that there are two of it: a search option in the top panel that misses about 50% of relevant messages, and a very featureful search option buried within the menu bar that misses about 20% of relevant messages. Out of necessity, I've trained myself to just reboot to Windows any time I really need to find a particular email that I know I have somewhere. I also don't particularly like Thunderbird's UI, but that is something I'm able to compromise on.
Not meant to be a rant, but rather: please, someone, is this really the best we have?
- jasonjayr 3y agoYea :( Most everyone has moved to webmail implementations, since it's good enough. I think even folks with the tech know-how to self-host a webmail client have done so. Personally, I use RoundCube.
- andersa 3y agoWait, what? I found thunderbird search to be a super power, so much more reliable (and fast) than outlook.
- elaus 3y agoI'm in the same boat. I've even installed Thunderbird and synced a mail account just to be able to find a specific mail that neither webmail nor the Android app were able to find.
- CJefferson 3y ago12 years ago I reported you can’t search for the word wedding, as it find any email that was sent on a Wednesday: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844 Did it ever get fixed? Wasn’t fixed when I tried about 2 years ago.
- andersa 3y agoInteresting... you're right, this is giving me lots of wednesdays.
- a0123 3y agoSearch is still as bad as it ever was, unfortunately it remains the most feature complete alternative (and free). And of course, Microsoft makes it impossible to use their services with it. Or so difficult you just give up after it breaks for the 5th time in a month.