I don't seem to get anything back from any of the various mail types I've had over the years. A simple search for "lowe's" should find something in every mail type I've tried. I had used Thunderbird for the longest time until I found out that they had no support strategy and that the users were at the mercy of what the donation coders felt like doing. A 2 year outage on the calendar alerts I wasn't even aware of ended up costing me money because I failed to show up at an event. That was the end of Thunderbird. I went to Outlook for a short period of time that was even worse not for the same reasons but just overcomplicated I guess I'd say. Now I'm using eM Client which is kinda sketchy but it seems to be getting better although there's no help for unpaid use except a forum where you can commiserate with other users.
Anyways if there some limitation on mail types searched or is it a text search so it shouldn't matter what client you use? When you have had various email clients over the years an external search becomes even more critical. Please let me know the current status of mail searching.
What's Going On With Mail?
Re: What's Going On With Mail?
Everything is a filename search engine.
It does not search email content by default.
To search eml file content, please try the content: search function.
Please check your email client is saving emails as eml files, this will not work for Outlook or other email clients that have their own database.
For example, to search for the content "To be or not to be" in eml files, modified this year, search for:
ext:eml dm:thisyear content:"To be or not to be"
Note: File content is not indexed. Searching file content will be very slow.
For the best performance, combine the content: search with other search filters.
Please try the Advanced Search under the search menu and set the "A word or phrase in the file" field.
For the best performance, set as many fields in the Advanced Search as possible.
It does not search email content by default.
To search eml file content, please try the content: search function.
Please check your email client is saving emails as eml files, this will not work for Outlook or other email clients that have their own database.
For example, to search for the content "To be or not to be" in eml files, modified this year, search for:
ext:eml dm:thisyear content:"To be or not to be"
Note: File content is not indexed. Searching file content will be very slow.
For the best performance, combine the content: search with other search filters.
Please try the Advanced Search under the search menu and set the "A word or phrase in the file" field.
For the best performance, set as many fields in the Advanced Search as possible.
Re: What's Going On With Mail?
Thunderbird 68.11 works fine.
With maildir storage enabled the Windows indexer is working
and I can find every mail by content with no problem.
With maildir storage enabled the Windows indexer is working
and I can find every mail by content with no problem.
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CityguyUSA
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Re: What's Going On With Mail?
Thunderbird only exports to eml if you load the addon. It's not how it saves messages. Each folder has a database index of sorts an .msf file along with an index folder *.sdb of the archived messages which has a file that tells where the archives are as I recall. They all are prefixed by the folder's name. The actual active mail is contained in the folder name without an extension.
In my case I want to use the expression: ext:"" E:\Users\Todd\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\j6bkjw01.default\ content:"Lowe's" to get my answers from Thunderbird. It won't give you the message text but the folder it's in. You can then use Thunderbird or your favorite large file editor to open the corresponding Thunderbird folder with no extension and then search within for your keyword. Obviously this file you don't ever want to resave or you might end up changing things within any email within the folder.
I'm going to see what I can figure out using other email clients.
In my case I want to use the expression: ext:"" E:\Users\Todd\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\j6bkjw01.default\ content:"Lowe's" to get my answers from Thunderbird. It won't give you the message text but the folder it's in. You can then use Thunderbird or your favorite large file editor to open the corresponding Thunderbird folder with no extension and then search within for your keyword. Obviously this file you don't ever want to resave or you might end up changing things within any email within the folder.
I'm going to see what I can figure out using other email clients.