CentOS - Mar 2012 - t-bird, followup

Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes,
I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and click
on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the
messages.

Maybe kmail, or maybe mutt....

       mark

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
wrote:
> Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes,
> I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and
click
> on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the
> messages.
Did yours go through an update dialog when you first started it?  And
did you pick the 'sync' option for the account?  After doing that,
mine has 'body' in the search, and you can enter text in the search
window in the toolbar and pick 'messages mentioning: (which will only
appear if there are matches).   If it is an imap account and you don't
pick sync, it only downloads the headers until you read a message.
Maybe non-imap accounts are different.

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   Les Mikesell
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:14:30 -0400
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look:
> yes, I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window,
> and click on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the
> content of the messages.
> 
> Maybe kmail, or maybe mutt....
> 
>        mark
> 
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If you are thinking of switching, I switched to Claws-Mail a while back
due to Thunderbird being a ____, I really like Claws now :-). It has
that "Old School" feel to it... and it can search bodies :-D. (Right
click folder, search folder)

Once you get it set up and configured (this may take a while for
some..) it is a powerful client.

So yeah, if you get bored with Thunderbird, check out claws (I believe
it installed from EPEL repo.)

Anyhow, as for Thunderbird's search, I believe there was either an
addon for more advanced search, or it was hidden away in a menu
somewhere. Try right-clicking a folder and hitting search, I think it
is there aswell.

Just my 2c.

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On 03/13/2012 10:14 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes,
> I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and
click
> on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the
> messages.
>
> Maybe kmail, or maybe mutt....
>
I am not sure what you mean.

In thunderbird, Shift-Ctrl-K allows you to set a filter for messages ...
it allows you to filter on Sender, Recipient, Subject, or Body

If you press Shift-Ctrl-F you can search messages and there is a
dropdown box for searching that has more than 20 things you can search
including body.

Body == message content    (it is everything that is not headers and
attachments)

I have never seen a client that is as easy to search from ... not sure
what the issue is.  The main reason I use thunderbird is because of the
unbelievable search features and indexes.

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Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 10:14 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look:
yes,
>> I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and
>> click on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content
of the
>> messages.
>>
>> Maybe kmail, or maybe mutt....
>>
> I am not sure what you mean.
>
> In thunderbird, Shift-Ctrl-K allows you to set a filter for messages ...
> it allows you to filter on Sender, Recipient, Subject, or Body
>
> If you press Shift-Ctrl-F you can search messages and there is a
> dropdown box for searching that has more than 20 things you can search
> including body.
Ah, but that's my problem: it *used* to be there, and isn't, any more.
And
when I want to search body, I 100% of the time need to set more conditions
above it, starting with date.

        mark

On 03/13/2012 08:14 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes,
> I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and
click
> on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the
> messages.
> 
View => Toolbars => Quick Filter Bar

will do what you want...

Using T-Bird 10.0.2 here, clicking on the account name and then choosing
"Search
Messages" offers a pull-down entry for 'body', so I don't know
what your issue is.


;-(


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KevinO