579148 - Allow quick search to do both AND and OR searches

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240454

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Karp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1

I like the new quick search interface with the "Filter messages by"
buttons.  It's intuitive and easy to change and in-your-face.

However, for many years I have been annoyed that thunderbird only
allows disjunctive searches in the quick search.

I suggest adding the ability to do either conjunctive or disjunctive
searches, meaning with respect to the words typed by the user in the
quick search box.  There could be a pair of buttons on the same line
as "Filter Messages by", such as:

Combine search terms by:  AND  OR

where AND and OR are buttons.

For example, if I type in the quick search area:    Smith Party

and click the AND button, it would show me all messages that
contain both of those words in whatever message fields
(Sender/Recipients/Subj/Body) are selected at the moment.

I find the current behavior of OR search only to be too loose most
of the time, and I find it annoying and time consuming to have to invoke
the Edit->Find->Search Messages command (and its results are 
poorly presented).


Reproducible: Always