Global Search for multiple words or hyphen/minus connected strings not working or not properly documented
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)
Tracking
(thunderbird_esr91?)
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People
(Reporter: info, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: dupeme)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.164 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
A common use case is mostly a domain name like "t-online" or such.
In this case, whether writing "t online" t-online or "t-online" and whatever tried and not found with a quick google search or app manual
Actual results:
It find messages containing just the string "online"
Expected results:
Find messages with only "t-online" or "t?online" where in latter case, the question mark can be any non-word character. Maybe rename the Engine from Gloda to an appropriate name?
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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Yeah, Global search can find you the needle in the haystack, but only if it's willing...
Personally for most everyday uses, I find searching via TB's Quick Filter Bar in the current folder sufficient and superior - will respect your search input to the dot... Have you tried using Quick Filter Bar for searching? (Ctrl+Shift+K)
The Search Engine Servers deliver, just need to remove the pedophile content from output and have ours back...
The issue is, that I work with multiple mailboxes, so that is not a replacement.
Certainly, an International Search Feature there would be sufficient, to do same over all configured mailboxes..
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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Consider these https://mzl.la/3i0HExX
(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)
Consider these https://mzl.la/3i0HExX
yes, exactly that...
I also have MS Outlook 2019 which I like and was generally recommended as E-Mail client for Windows PC or Notebook.
Sadly there is a bug or missing document hint on how Outlook 2019 can server-side fed for auto-discovery to work properly, otherwise I would have quickly migrated my accounts.
But anyway, I think on Linux Thunderbird is interesting, or for someone not buying MS Office package.
i can confirm, that the problem with minus in search phrase is still not fixed with Thunderbird Version 91.10.0 here.
For example:
I need to search for a number in subject like "303-83676782-806435" -> thunderbird gives me no results.
If i would search only "83676782" i can find it in the results... but sometimes this is not enough to distinguish.
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