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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 115 by reacharavindh on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:37AM (#36664953)
I have always wondered this. When a site like "MAterial for Mkdocs" can implement such a featureful search (with autocomplete, spellcorrect and such) in a browser for a website, how could it be this hard for a desktop application with several orders of magnitude of resources at its disposal?
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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 115 by WhyNotHugo on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:46AM (#36665014)
There’s no technical reason, it’s just a poor implementation.

I use “notmuch” for email and it can index over two decades of emails in seconds. Search is then instantaneous.

TBH, thunderbird could just use notmuch under the hood.

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 115 by zvmaz on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:53AM (#36665063)
> There’s no technical reason, it’s just a poor implementation.

> TBH, thunderbird could just use notmuch under the hood.

You could provide us with a plugin that does just that.

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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 115 by throw10920 on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:07PM (#36674249)
"You can do it yourself" is never an acceptable reply to a criticism of a piece of software.
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Re:What’s New in Thunderbird 115 by rajamaka on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:58AM (#36665095)
Looking forward to your PR
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