Is thunderbird capable of searching more than one local folder?
Bill Powell wrote:
Is thunderbird capable of searching more than one local folder?
If the folders are part of a hierarchy, you can can right-click a parent/grandparent/etc folder and search... downwards from there.
Long ago I saved all my Google mail to local folders in thunderbird
with one folder per year for about 15 years so about 15 folders.
If you ask why, that was the easiest way to organize the messages
given there were about 1GB of messages per local folder already.
Almost every day, I often want to search that mail for something, which
is why I saved it all in the first place.
Is thunderbird incapable of searching multiple folders?
If so, how do I tell thunderbird to search more than one folder?
Here's what I do that fails.
I select all fifteen local folders.
I right click on those selected fifteen folders.
There is no option for search. :(
The workaround is to select one local folder.
I right click on that one selected local folder.
Now I get the option of "Search Messages".
I run this same search fifteen times, once for each local folder.
But why can't I search more than one local folder at a time?
What am I doing wrong?
Is thunderbird capable of searching more than one local folder?
You should try posting your question to the
alt.comp.software.thunderbird newsgroup.
You could use Copernic Desktop Search.
Michael Logies <logies@t-online.de> wrote:
You could use Copernic Desktop Search.
I remember using that way over a decade ago. Stopped using it when it stopped being free. Pricing is noted at:
https://copernic.com/en/desktop/pricing/
Don't see Thunderbird's message store files listed under Basic
($1.83/month) at:
https://copernic.com/en/desktop/search-over-170-files/
Thunderbird (only e-mails and contacts) is listed under Advanced.
That'll cost more ($2.92/month). You can buy ($30) their Thunderbird extension. Other than a 30-day free trial, I saw no freeware version.
The trial is free (https://copernic.com/en/free-trial/). The download
of the trial is free. The product is NOT free. Not many freeware users
want to throw payware at a solution.
https://copernic-desktop-search-home.software.informer.com/3.7/
(Personally I don't trust downloads from there.)
That says an ancient Home version 3.7 was free. Not much info on the
old version, like it will search *inside* Tbird's mbox database files.
Does Copernic itself provide a freeware version of their Desktop Search,
or are you suggesting to find somewhere an ancient version?
I pay for Thunderbird per year.^^^^^^^^^^^
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