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Search for eMails in Thunderbird

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Rosa Beha
Rosa Beha
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Hi! I'm looking for emails in Thunderbird that contain "team energy". Why I get search results which have only "team" or "energy" in their text? How can I search for Mails including "team energie"? For the programmer: Why I get "results" with only one of this words? Why I get "results" with false words ("energy" instead of "energie"? Kind regards and happy search results Hans-Jürgen Dammann

Hi! I'm looking for emails in Thunderbird that contain "team energy". Why I get search results which have only "team" or "energy" in their text? How can I search for Mails including "team energie"? For the programmer: Why I get "results" with only one of this words? Why I get "results" with false words ("energy" instead of "energie"? Kind regards and happy search results Hans-Jürgen Dammann

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david
david
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Would you please post a screenshot of the search pane so that it's easier to understand? Thank you.

superian
superian
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It is quite hard to post screenshots of searches while retaining confidentiality of the emails in question, of course.

This turns out to a bug that's been around for so long - thirteen years!! - it is effectively a "won't fix": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844.

It's much easier to search the mailbox files yourself with another program.