Thunderbird Quick Filter suddenly stopped working
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I use Thunderbird, the version I currently run is 24.1.0.
I used to search for messages containing certain IDs or addresses with the Quick Filter, but since yesterday somehow it stopped working. I enter the ID I am looking for and there are "No results" while actually there are messages containing the search phrase in that inbox.
I have not done any changes that I am aware of, no updates or changed settings or anything. I also checked that all four tabs "Sender," "Recipient," "Subject" and "Body" are active.
What am I doing wrong? Any idea?
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I use Thunderbird, the version I currently run is 24.1.0.
I used to search for messages containing certain IDs or addresses with the Quick Filter, but since yesterday somehow it stopped working. I enter the ID I am looking for and there are "No results" while actually there are messages containing the search phrase in that inbox.
I have not done any changes that I am aware of, no updates or changed settings or anything. I also checked that all four tabs "Sender," "Recipient," "Subject" and "Body" are active.
What am I doing wrong? Any idea?
thunderbird search
asked Dec 23 '14 at 15:10
koljanep
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I use Thunderbird, the version I currently run is 24.1.0.
I used to search for messages containing certain IDs or addresses with the Quick Filter, but since yesterday somehow it stopped working. I enter the ID I am looking for and there are "No results" while actually there are messages containing the search phrase in that inbox.
I have not done any changes that I am aware of, no updates or changed settings or anything. I also checked that all four tabs "Sender," "Recipient," "Subject" and "Body" are active.
What am I doing wrong? Any idea?
thunderbird search
asked Dec 23 '14 at 15:10
koljanep
1421312
I use Thunderbird, the version I currently run is 24.1.0.
I used to search for messages containing certain IDs or addresses with the Quick Filter, but since yesterday somehow it stopped working. I enter the ID I am looking for and there are "No results" while actually there are messages containing the search phrase in that inbox.
I have not done any changes that I am aware of, no updates or changed settings or anything. I also checked that all four tabs "Sender," "Recipient," "Subject" and "Body" are active.
What am I doing wrong? Any idea?
thunderbird search
thunderbird search
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asked Dec 23 '14 at 15:10
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asked Dec 23 '14 at 15:10
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FIXED: I've had this problem in the past with select IMAP folders not accurately showing items using the quick filter tool (items would show up in the global thunderbird search though).
- Right-click folder | Repair Folder
- File menu | Compact Folders
From there, you should see in Activity manager (tools menu | Activity Manager) the folder probably re-downloaded, and reindexing of all the messages will occur. After that, your Quick Filter should accurately reflect items.
It had been a while since I'd done maintenance on thunderbirds folder structure :)
edited Sep 28 '15 at 17:22
Dave M
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answered Sep 28 '15 at 17:09
David T
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I'll try tomorrow, thanks for letting me know. If it works, this will be awesome!
– koljanep
Sep 29 '15 at 21:26
Has not resolved with your proposed solution.
– koljanep
Jan 4 '16 at 18:29
What did you try?
– David T
Jan 6 '16 at 3:50
What you explained in your answer of course: repair folder, compact and reindex, etc.
– koljanep
Jan 6 '16 at 12:20
This repairs the indexes in Thunderbird, so that the thunderbird indexes are accurate. Check this for all the Thunderbird related search options: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-search . Finally there's a second indexing that's the windows indexing service. Search for Indexing options | Advanced | Rebuild which will rebuild all the objects published to the windows search api. After all those, I think I'm out of ideas :)
– David T
Jan 8 '16 at 13:18
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Since this problem occurred I seem to have found the answer.
At a certain point, when the mailbox reaches ~25,000 messages, the filter (as described above) stops working. Once I deleted some of the messages it started working again, and once I got new messages that got the inbox message count "above the limit", it stopped working.
I tried compacting the folders as described by David T, but that didn't really help.
Right now the only handling seems to be to not accumulate too many messages.
answered Mar 3 '17 at 17:54
koljanep
1421312
I have seen all kinds of weird behavior on big (>10k messages) folders, so I ended up splitting my mail archives by year. It feels a bit stupid to search/filter several times when I don't remember the year, but at least it works.
– Dmitry Grigoryev
Jan 29 at 8:01
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Had similar problem, too, using Thunderbird 52.9.1 with IMAP folders comletety synced locally. Specifically in Quick Search, a message kept showing up that did not contain the queried term, not even in attachments or the email's source.
Similar to what @David T suggested, but slightly different, maybe just because Thunderbird changed its interface since then. So for me it was
Right click folder -> Properties -> Repair folder (in General information tab)
answered Nov 14 at 8:21
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3 Answers
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FIXED: I've had this problem in the past with select IMAP folders not accurately showing items using the quick filter tool (items would show up in the global thunderbird search though).
- Right-click folder | Repair Folder
- File menu | Compact Folders
From there, you should see in Activity manager (tools menu | Activity Manager) the folder probably re-downloaded, and reindexing of all the messages will occur. After that, your Quick Filter should accurately reflect items.
It had been a while since I'd done maintenance on thunderbirds folder structure :)
edited Sep 28 '15 at 17:22
Dave M
12.7k92838
answered Sep 28 '15 at 17:09
David T
434
I'll try tomorrow, thanks for letting me know. If it works, this will be awesome!
– koljanep
Sep 29 '15 at 21:26
Has not resolved with your proposed solution.
– koljanep
Jan 4 '16 at 18:29
What did you try?
– David T
Jan 6 '16 at 3:50
What you explained in your answer of course: repair folder, compact and reindex, etc.
– koljanep
Jan 6 '16 at 12:20
This repairs the indexes in Thunderbird, so that the thunderbird indexes are accurate. Check this for all the Thunderbird related search options: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-search . Finally there's a second indexing that's the windows indexing service. Search for Indexing options | Advanced | Rebuild which will rebuild all the objects published to the windows search api. After all those, I think I'm out of ideas :)
– David T
Jan 8 '16 at 13:18
add a comment |
up vote
2
down vote
FIXED: I've had this problem in the past with select IMAP folders not accurately showing items using the quick filter tool (items would show up in the global thunderbird search though).
- Right-click folder | Repair Folder
- File menu | Compact Folders
From there, you should see in Activity manager (tools menu | Activity Manager) the folder probably re-downloaded, and reindexing of all the messages will occur. After that, your Quick Filter should accurately reflect items.
It had been a while since I'd done maintenance on thunderbirds folder structure :)
edited Sep 28 '15 at 17:22
Dave M
12.7k92838
answered Sep 28 '15 at 17:09
David T
434
I'll try tomorrow, thanks for letting me know. If it works, this will be awesome!
– koljanep
Sep 29 '15 at 21:26
Has not resolved with your proposed solution.
– koljanep
Jan 4 '16 at 18:29
What did you try?
– David T
Jan 6 '16 at 3:50
What you explained in your answer of course: repair folder, compact and reindex, etc.
– koljanep
Jan 6 '16 at 12:20
This repairs the indexes in Thunderbird, so that the thunderbird indexes are accurate. Check this for all the Thunderbird related search options: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-search . Finally there's a second indexing that's the windows indexing service. Search for Indexing options | Advanced | Rebuild which will rebuild all the objects published to the windows search api. After all those, I think I'm out of ideas :)
– David T
Jan 8 '16 at 13:18
add a comment |
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
2
down vote
FIXED: I've had this problem in the past with select IMAP folders not accurately showing items using the quick filter tool (items would show up in the global thunderbird search though).
- Right-click folder | Repair Folder
- File menu | Compact Folders
From there, you should see in Activity manager (tools menu | Activity Manager) the folder probably re-downloaded, and reindexing of all the messages will occur. After that, your Quick Filter should accurately reflect items.
It had been a while since I'd done maintenance on thunderbirds folder structure :)
edited Sep 28 '15 at 17:22
Dave M
12.7k92838
answered Sep 28 '15 at 17:09
David T
434
FIXED: I've had this problem in the past with select IMAP folders not accurately showing items using the quick filter tool (items would show up in the global thunderbird search though).
- Right-click folder | Repair Folder
- File menu | Compact Folders
From there, you should see in Activity manager (tools menu | Activity Manager) the folder probably re-downloaded, and reindexing of all the messages will occur. After that, your Quick Filter should accurately reflect items.
It had been a while since I'd done maintenance on thunderbirds folder structure :)
edited Sep 28 '15 at 17:22
Dave M
12.7k92838
answered Sep 28 '15 at 17:09
David T
434
edited Sep 28 '15 at 17:22
Dave M
12.7k92838
edited Sep 28 '15 at 17:22
Dave M
12.7k92838
edited Sep 28 '15 at 17:22
Dave M
12.7k92838
12.7k92838
answered Sep 28 '15 at 17:09
David T
434
answered Sep 28 '15 at 17:09
David T
434
answered Sep 28 '15 at 17:09
David T
434
434
I'll try tomorrow, thanks for letting me know. If it works, this will be awesome!
– koljanep
Sep 29 '15 at 21:26
Has not resolved with your proposed solution.
– koljanep
Jan 4 '16 at 18:29
What did you try?
– David T
Jan 6 '16 at 3:50
What you explained in your answer of course: repair folder, compact and reindex, etc.
– koljanep
Jan 6 '16 at 12:20
This repairs the indexes in Thunderbird, so that the thunderbird indexes are accurate. Check this for all the Thunderbird related search options: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-search . Finally there's a second indexing that's the windows indexing service. Search for Indexing options | Advanced | Rebuild which will rebuild all the objects published to the windows search api. After all those, I think I'm out of ideas :)
– David T
Jan 8 '16 at 13:18
add a comment |
I'll try tomorrow, thanks for letting me know. If it works, this will be awesome!
– koljanep
Sep 29 '15 at 21:26
Has not resolved with your proposed solution.
– koljanep
Jan 4 '16 at 18:29
What did you try?
– David T
Jan 6 '16 at 3:50
What you explained in your answer of course: repair folder, compact and reindex, etc.
– koljanep
Jan 6 '16 at 12:20
This repairs the indexes in Thunderbird, so that the thunderbird indexes are accurate. Check this for all the Thunderbird related search options: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-search . Finally there's a second indexing that's the windows indexing service. Search for Indexing options | Advanced | Rebuild which will rebuild all the objects published to the windows search api. After all those, I think I'm out of ideas :)
– David T
Jan 8 '16 at 13:18
I'll try tomorrow, thanks for letting me know. If it works, this will be awesome!
– koljanep
Sep 29 '15 at 21:26
I'll try tomorrow, thanks for letting me know. If it works, this will be awesome!
– koljanep
Sep 29 '15 at 21:26
Has not resolved with your proposed solution.
– koljanep
Jan 4 '16 at 18:29
Has not resolved with your proposed solution.
– koljanep
Jan 4 '16 at 18:29
What did you try?
– David T
Jan 6 '16 at 3:50
What did you try?
– David T
Jan 6 '16 at 3:50
What you explained in your answer of course: repair folder, compact and reindex, etc.
– koljanep
Jan 6 '16 at 12:20
What you explained in your answer of course: repair folder, compact and reindex, etc.
– koljanep
Jan 6 '16 at 12:20
This repairs the indexes in Thunderbird, so that the thunderbird indexes are accurate. Check this for all the Thunderbird related search options: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-search . Finally there's a second indexing that's the windows indexing service. Search for Indexing options | Advanced | Rebuild which will rebuild all the objects published to the windows search api. After all those, I think I'm out of ideas :)
– David T
Jan 8 '16 at 13:18
This repairs the indexes in Thunderbird, so that the thunderbird indexes are accurate. Check this for all the Thunderbird related search options: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuration-options-search . Finally there's a second indexing that's the windows indexing service. Search for Indexing options | Advanced | Rebuild which will rebuild all the objects published to the windows search api. After all those, I think I'm out of ideas :)
– David T
Jan 8 '16 at 13:18
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
Since this problem occurred I seem to have found the answer.
At a certain point, when the mailbox reaches ~25,000 messages, the filter (as described above) stops working. Once I deleted some of the messages it started working again, and once I got new messages that got the inbox message count "above the limit", it stopped working.
I tried compacting the folders as described by David T, but that didn't really help.
Right now the only handling seems to be to not accumulate too many messages.
answered Mar 3 '17 at 17:54
koljanep
1421312
I have seen all kinds of weird behavior on big (>10k messages) folders, so I ended up splitting my mail archives by year. It feels a bit stupid to search/filter several times when I don't remember the year, but at least it works.
– Dmitry Grigoryev
Jan 29 at 8:01
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
Since this problem occurred I seem to have found the answer.
At a certain point, when the mailbox reaches ~25,000 messages, the filter (as described above) stops working. Once I deleted some of the messages it started working again, and once I got new messages that got the inbox message count "above the limit", it stopped working.
I tried compacting the folders as described by David T, but that didn't really help.
Right now the only handling seems to be to not accumulate too many messages.
answered Mar 3 '17 at 17:54
koljanep
1421312
I have seen all kinds of weird behavior on big (>10k messages) folders, so I ended up splitting my mail archives by year. It feels a bit stupid to search/filter several times when I don't remember the year, but at least it works.
– Dmitry Grigoryev
Jan 29 at 8:01
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
Since this problem occurred I seem to have found the answer.
At a certain point, when the mailbox reaches ~25,000 messages, the filter (as described above) stops working. Once I deleted some of the messages it started working again, and once I got new messages that got the inbox message count "above the limit", it stopped working.
I tried compacting the folders as described by David T, but that didn't really help.
Right now the only handling seems to be to not accumulate too many messages.
answered Mar 3 '17 at 17:54
koljanep
1421312
Since this problem occurred I seem to have found the answer.
At a certain point, when the mailbox reaches ~25,000 messages, the filter (as described above) stops working. Once I deleted some of the messages it started working again, and once I got new messages that got the inbox message count "above the limit", it stopped working.
I tried compacting the folders as described by David T, but that didn't really help.
Right now the only handling seems to be to not accumulate too many messages.
answered Mar 3 '17 at 17:54
koljanep
1421312
answered Mar 3 '17 at 17:54
koljanep
1421312
answered Mar 3 '17 at 17:54
koljanep
1421312
answered Mar 3 '17 at 17:54
koljanep
1421312
1421312
I have seen all kinds of weird behavior on big (>10k messages) folders, so I ended up splitting my mail archives by year. It feels a bit stupid to search/filter several times when I don't remember the year, but at least it works.
– Dmitry Grigoryev
Jan 29 at 8:01
add a comment |
I have seen all kinds of weird behavior on big (>10k messages) folders, so I ended up splitting my mail archives by year. It feels a bit stupid to search/filter several times when I don't remember the year, but at least it works.
– Dmitry Grigoryev
Jan 29 at 8:01
I have seen all kinds of weird behavior on big (>10k messages) folders, so I ended up splitting my mail archives by year. It feels a bit stupid to search/filter several times when I don't remember the year, but at least it works.
– Dmitry Grigoryev
Jan 29 at 8:01
I have seen all kinds of weird behavior on big (>10k messages) folders, so I ended up splitting my mail archives by year. It feels a bit stupid to search/filter several times when I don't remember the year, but at least it works.
– Dmitry Grigoryev
Jan 29 at 8:01
add a comment |
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0
down vote
Had similar problem, too, using Thunderbird 52.9.1 with IMAP folders comletety synced locally. Specifically in Quick Search, a message kept showing up that did not contain the queried term, not even in attachments or the email's source.
Similar to what @David T suggested, but slightly different, maybe just because Thunderbird changed its interface since then. So for me it was
Right click folder -> Properties -> Repair folder (in General information tab)
answered Nov 14 at 8:21
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Had similar problem, too, using Thunderbird 52.9.1 with IMAP folders comletety synced locally. Specifically in Quick Search, a message kept showing up that did not contain the queried term, not even in attachments or the email's source.
Similar to what @David T suggested, but slightly different, maybe just because Thunderbird changed its interface since then. So for me it was
Right click folder -> Properties -> Repair folder (in General information tab)
answered Nov 14 at 8:21
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Had similar problem, too, using Thunderbird 52.9.1 with IMAP folders comletety synced locally. Specifically in Quick Search, a message kept showing up that did not contain the queried term, not even in attachments or the email's source.
Similar to what @David T suggested, but slightly different, maybe just because Thunderbird changed its interface since then. So for me it was
Right click folder -> Properties -> Repair folder (in General information tab)
answered Nov 14 at 8:21
hennzen
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Had similar problem, too, using Thunderbird 52.9.1 with IMAP folders comletety synced locally. Specifically in Quick Search, a message kept showing up that did not contain the queried term, not even in attachments or the email's source.
Similar to what @David T suggested, but slightly different, maybe just because Thunderbird changed its interface since then. So for me it was
Right click folder -> Properties -> Repair folder (in General information tab)
answered Nov 14 at 8:21
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answered Nov 14 at 8:21
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