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Thunderbird must search by parts of the word

dmitry-kabanov — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:57:40 GMT

I have a strong usability issue with Thunderbird (version 128.4.0esr in my case).

Precisely, Thunderbird does not search by part of a search word, which make the search to function less useful than it could be.

For example, I have an email (in German) with the subject line "Gruppeschutzimpfung" (which means Flu-Protection-Vaccination). I am not German and I do not remember the exact word. I search for "grippe" - nothing found, I search for "Impfung" - again, nothing found, while thunderbird looks only for exact words. It would be much-much better if the search could work with words parts as well.

Re: Thunderbird must search by parts of the word

AndyHengst — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:02:28 GMT

And at the same time, when I search specifically for "views" (because I'm looking for references to a magazine whose name includes that word), the results are flooded with all emails containing the word "view". There appear to be no Preferences settings to tune the Search behaviour either way - to produce more 'coarse' or 'fine' matches to the search terms. I also tried using quotes like this ["view"], and negation like [views -view]. I'm not used to looking here for discussions or bugs, and this post is a near-hit, so I'll leave this here.

Re: Thunderbird must search by parts of the word

AndyHengst — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:28:56 GMT

I just verified the behaviour in 128.2.0esr and 128.4.2esr. The live dropdown gives the expected filtered list, but the "Results for: views" page includes results containing just "view", and in this particular case it's far more than I need. I can probably use the live dropdown effectively, as a workaround.

Re: Thunderbird must search by parts of the word

looney — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 15:50:56 GMT

can not get in to my emails