Join the AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the Firefox leadership team to celebrate Firefox 20th anniversary and discuss Firefox’s future on Mozilla Connect. Mark your calendar on Thursday, November 14, 18:00 - 20:00 UTC!

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

if i search for a mail and if its not downloaded on the local storage, will TB look for it on the gmail server ?

  • 2 replies
  • 1 has this problem
  • 1 view
  • Last reply by sfhowes

Pal
Pal
more options

I am using TB for my corporate mails with 1 server + 15 Thin Clients network, there are up to 15 mail id's. if i allow TB to download whole inbox then it would download about 150 GB of data. so i have configured TB to download only 30 days mails, but if we are required to search old e mails, then if i search in TB will TB look for the content on Gmail Server?

I am using TB for my corporate mails with 1 server + 15 Thin Clients network, there are up to 15 mail id's. if i allow TB to download whole inbox then it would download about 150 GB of data. so i have configured TB to download only 30 days mails, but if we are required to search old e mails, then if i search in TB will TB look for the content on Gmail Server?

All Replies (2)

Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

Thunderbird searches through the imap files in Thunderbird profile on your computer. It is not searching the server itself.

sfhowes
sfhowes
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

If you start from Edit/Find/Search Messages (Ctrl+Shift+F) and check 'Run search on server', I expect it would search all messages, although some of the search criteria are not available, e.g. Attachment Status, and the process would be slower than for downloaded mail.