I have an email from 4 days ago that has a certain ordinary word in it: "conductive". I knew I put it in there but I still had to hunt for it because I mailed that recipient a dozen or more times. Search from the edit menu did not find it although it found other instances from years ago. I tried with and without 'search on server'. I deleted the database file and watched the program rebuild it. It still doesn't find it. I am deeply weary of the blase' indifference that everybody seems to have for the deficiencies of token searches which are dysfunctional everywhere they appear as far as I can tell. Sometimes in life you want a real search. Thunderbird comes fairly close to being a good email client in most ways but this remains fundamentally intolerable to me. So I would like to add it myself. Is that possible? Who do I have to talk to to add a clickbox to search that will do a real string search? I will code it myself as long at the program is written in a C family dialect.