Any way to filter messages the old way?

Trel Smith

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Feb 9, 2010, 2:17:03 PM2/9/10

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I liked a lot being able to type a filter, and having it progressivly filter the displayed messages.
Is there any way to get this behavior in Thunderbird 3?

I use it a lot for my IMAP accounts.

Kent James

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Feb 9, 2010, 3:11:55 PM2/9/10

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The old so-called quick search functionality is still available, with a
few additional choices. If you click on the magnifying glass to the left
of the search text entry box, you will get a dropdown that shows
additional choices. Only the first "Search all messages" uses the new
global database engine. All others are the traditional per-folder search.

rkent

goodwin

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Feb 9, 2010, 8:27:41 PM2/9/10

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On 02/09/2010 12:11 PM Kent James scribbled:

didn't he say /filter/ , not search?
progressive filter as well, which I don't understand, so you may have
had a leap of intuition.

Trel?

Kent James

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Feb 10, 2010, 12:17:20 AM2/10/10

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On 2/9/2010 5:27 PM, goodwin wrote:
>
> didn't he say /filter/ , not search?
>

Against my complaints (precisely because of the type of confusion that
this message embodies) what used to be called "quick search" under TB2
is now called "Subject filter" or "To or CC filter" - and it is
progressive. It is a search, but "filters" the view. That is what I
believe he was describing.

rkent

Trel Smith

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Feb 10, 2010, 12:22:57 AM2/10/10

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Actually when you disable the global search, it works the way I intended, however, the pref and the check box were not right so it
kept trying to do the search rather than filter.

Once I checked box, said ok, went back in and unchecked, it worked as intended again.

Wayne Mery

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Feb 10, 2010, 4:31:05 AM2/10/10

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you don't need to disable global. just click the dropdown arrow in the
search window and pick a filter, as rkent described. Or, are you
saying you did that, and picked something other than "Search all
messages", and it didn't filter?

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Trel Smith

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Feb 10, 2010, 5:18:37 AM2/10/10

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On 2/10/2010 4:31 AM, Wayne Mery wrote:
> On 2/10/2010 12:22 AM, Trel Smith wrote:
>> Actually when you disable the global search, it works the way I
>> intended, however, the pref and the check box were not right so it
>> kept trying to do the search rather than filter.
>>
>> Once I checked box, said ok, went back in and unchecked, it worked as
>> intended again.
>
> you don't need to disable global. just click the dropdown arrow in the
> search window and pick a filter, as rkent described. Or, are you
> saying you did that, and picked something other than "Search all
> messages", and it didn't filter?
>

When the "global search and indexer" is checked, filtering does NOT work. It will ALWAYS open a search tab. When it's unchecked,
it filters.

However, my problem was, it was searching while it was unchecked. Checking, saying ok, and then unchecking again (and saying ok)
corrected this problem.

(But when it's enabled, you can't filter)

goodwin

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Feb 10, 2010, 10:14:42 AM2/10/10

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On 02/09/2010 09:17 PM Kent James scribbled:

Ok, sorry, another TB 3 enhancement, I surmise