Frankie suggests trying ("why can't employ the same search method for the global search"), but the architecture of global search doesn't fit quick filter. So Magnus is absolutely correct and directly answered the question of comment 57 - a solution is never going to come from plumbing global search capabilities into Quick Filter Bar.
The possible architectural solutions are comment 1, comment 6, and a complete replacement of gloda - none of which are in scope for the [next version, 103](https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap).
For now,possible workarounds for the foreseeable future are Edit > Find > Search Messages mentioned in comment 17 (repeated in comment 23), and ...
(In reply to github from comment #21)
> As a workaround with this plugin search seems to be better:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmailui/
The updated version is https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/expression-search-ng/ If you want to support his work, suggest helping with the code, or donating. Open issues are listed at https://github.com/opto/Expression-Search-NG/issues (this bug report is not a place to discuss this addon).
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Frankie suggests trying ("why can't employ the same search method for the ~~global~~ Advanced search"), but the architecture of global search doesn't fit quick filter. So Magnus is absolutely correct and directly answered the question of comment 57 - a solution is never going to come from plumbing global search capabilities into Quick Filter Bar.
The possible architectural solutions are comment 1, comment 6, and a complete replacement of gloda - none of which are in scope for the [next version, 103](https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap).
For now,possible workarounds for the foreseeable future are Edit > Find > Search Messages mentioned in comment 17 (repeated in comment 23), and ...
(In reply to github from comment #21)
> As a workaround with this plugin search seems to be better:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmailui/
The updated version is https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/expression-search-ng/ If you want to support his work, suggest helping with the code, or donating. Open issues are listed at https://github.com/opto/Expression-Search-NG/issues (this bug report is not a place to discuss this addon).