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Is it just me or does the search engine suck? (midwest.social)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/thunderbird@lemmy.world
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Edit: Sorry, I mean the Android app!

I can never seem to pull up old emails, like from years back. The search results tend to be limited to recent emails, it seems. Is anyone else having this problem? It just draws a blank for emails that I absolutely know I received years ago.

I am loving the unified inbox though, which I think Gmail lacks!

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago

It's gotten much shittier recently, yes. It used to work better.

Much like all search, really.

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    i have one user with a local mail store going back over two decades. she searches mails all the time and has only once had a problem 'finding' something.. which turned out to not be in there in the first place, as it was in a different account only on her phone - thunderbird wasn't configured for it.

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Utterly. Can't even search in message body.

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    • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yes, search in the android app does not work for me either.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Search isn't great, but also - there is more than one search function.

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-search

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-searching

    Ctrl + K for Global, Ctrl + Shift + K for Local, and Ctrl + Shift + F for Advanced.

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