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   djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 14:25:41 JST djsumdog

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   • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
   • Steven Ensslen :flag_tino:

   You gotta select full text search on the server. And sometimes it still doesn't work so I'll SSH to my server and just run grep on the mail folder.

   Thunderbird use to be awesome, but it's just gradually gotten worse and worse. It's sad because there are literally no other good e-mail clients in the open source world. Evolution is .. okay, not great by any means. I only use it if I'm at a job where I need to connect something to GSuite or Outlook.

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     Steven Ensslen :flag_tino: (ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 14:25:42 JST Steven Ensslen :flag_tino:

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     • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

     @lightweight
     Exact term search is a key feature for me. I can know the subject line of the email i am looking for, and Thunderbird won't show it. I am constantly searching for "NZCCL 2025-07-17 Minutes" and getting back results that include any of the individual terms. That's all minutes, all NZCCL references, and anything with any of the three numbers. Sort by relevance doesn't seem to do anything: It does not promote matches with more than one term.
     https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1307301

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 14:25:43 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     • Steven Ensslen :flag_tino:

     @ensslen oddly enough, I quite like Mozilla Thunderbird... and harbour a strong disrespect for MS Outlook and its wannabes (like Evolution). In my experience search is a function of the IMAP server that its connected to (assuming you use IMAP)... mine implements a nice search database and I've found it to be quite effective... Not sure about the pre-configuration stuff, as I don't seem to miss it...

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     Steven Ensslen :flag_tino: (ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 14:25:45 JST Steven Ensslen :flag_tino:

     I have to say that I strongly dislike Thunderbird. It's poor compared to most of the proprietary email clients I've been made to use. I wish there were better alternatives.

     Yes, I just complemented Microsoft Outlook. I used to really dislike Outlook. But it has a functional search. And more than a half dozen configuration settings, so that I don't have to reconfigure its search results screen every time I open it.