Thunderbird’s Future Home

Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home by ChefDenominator on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:48AM (#14299934)

IDK, I like that Thunderbird sorts without conversation. It is the primary feature I look for in a MUA.

The only feature I find annoying is the search feature, which seems to be a universally accepted weakness of Thunderbird.

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Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home by unethical_ban on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:21AM (#14300212)

I'm confused by its two search bars. It doesn't make sense to have two.

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Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home by doughj3 on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:59AM (#14301115)

One is a global search, the other is a simple filter for the currently opened mail folder. I use both for their respective use cases all the time.

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Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home by ChefDenominator on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:25AM (#14300247)

IIRC, the one for the highlighted directory uses regex (I'm really horrible with regex, so I don't use it).

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Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home by emodendroket on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:56AM (#14300000)

Yeah, the search is really terrible.

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Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home by ChefDenominator on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:24AM (#14300234)

I'm thinking when Windows 7 expires in 2020 and I have to migrate to Linux because Microsoft hates having paying customers such as myself, I'll probably move to either Mint or Ubuntu and install a local Sphinx Search server specifically so I can search Thunderbird emails.

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Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home by vog on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:26AM (#14300811)

Why waiting so long? Move now and give yourself a smoother transition.

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