fyi, this is implemented in TotalQuickFilter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/totalquickfilter/
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fyi, this is implemented in [TotalQuickFilter](https://bitbucket.org/alta8888/totalquickfilter).