What is up with search? It just doesn't work right.
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04-09-2025 04:18 PM
I've ditched thunderbird for the commercial product em client. I don't know what happened but the latest versions of thunderbird use this "global search" that just doesn't work right.
I used to be able to go to a folder and search for any keyword that was relevant, and it would find all the emails.
But now it just doesn't. It finds some emails, mostly old ones.. and a bunch of emails I don't want.
Maybe there is some way I could have "made it work" the way I wanted but that is bad product design if people have to go out of their way to fix it.
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04-11-2025 01:22 AM
Hi there, in Thunderbird, there is the global search option (which searches all messages) and QuickFilter, which shows search options for just one folder (and probably child folders). See Screenshot attached...
Maybe that helps?

