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Ever wondered why Gmail search fails to find text you're sure is present?
- chrisjj 2y agoGmail search erronously overlooks as words any words Gmail Compose has littered with redundant embedded tags.
- chrisjj 2y ago...plus overlooks the plain text MIME part entirely! And we thought Google was supposed to be good at search...
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- labrador 2y agoGoogle doesn't want you deleting their data
- chrisjj 2y agoSo we're fortunate it finds anything? :)
- biglyburrito 2y ago[flagged]
- troyvit 2y agoWhat did you switch to? Because I switched to Thunderbird and now find my search is even worse than it was with Gmail.
- sam_lowry_ 2y agomutt
- chrisjj 2y agoMutt has search that actually works? The user docs suggest ut has jone at all.
- sam_lowry_ 2y agoWorks for me, even without IMAP SEARCH. Granted, once in a few years I backup old emails into a different mbox. I guess this helps.
- chrisjj 2y agoGood question. Thunderbird? Search like its 1999. I've found no client that offers search expressions like Gmail. Except Fastmail, whose results are wholly untrustworthy.
- troyvit 2y agoYeah I feel like Fastmail's search was good at one point and then sort-of went to suck.
- isaachinman 2y agoWe're building Marco, which is essentially a cross-platform, modern Thunderbird. Full-text search and indexing is done client-side via Orama, and search is on the order of single digit ms. https://marcoapp.io https://marcoapp.io
- sitzkrieg 2y agohow many engineers and billions of $? lol