alt Hacker NewsI run grep on Thunderbird's storage directory and it's significantly faster than anything Thunderbird itself attempts. (It also allows finding exact matches, fuzzy search without language "awareness" is disgusting to use.)
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mmooss • 04/02/2025
That's kind of the point of the Unix text stream philosophy? TB stores as text, and then you can use the best text search tool you have.
Do you use mbox or maildir, out of curiosity?
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Even worse: the Swedish translation is lacking, so I use English. But my emails are often in Swedish. Making åäö and aao equal is never what I have ever wanted.
Not as bad as gnome which - in addition - has not let me reliably set things like date formats or first day of the week since several years despite using Swedish as my language.