Why does Thunderbird always censor the last email from any email search result?
Just curious why Tbird (Ubuntu 21.04) always omits the last email from a search result. e.g. If I search by somebody's name, all emails except the most recent one appear in the search result.
It is extraordinarily misleading since one of the main reasons for searching is to see whether I replied the someone's final mail. Tbird has tripped me up a couple of times on this, indicating that I did not. If I do the same search on the same account with Apple Mail, it shows my final response.
The Tbird situation is worse than not doing the search at all. Yes it must be just a very rookie programming error like starting a loop at 1 instead of 0 or something like that.
Why do people say Tbird is the go-to mail app, when it still has bugs like this after 78 iterations? It seems like too basic an error to be just accidental Just curious.
Of course if someone can point to something I am doing wrong, I stand corrected.
Thanks, Paul
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Why does my question in this thread have a scroll bar running through the middle of it? :-) Is it just me?
I thought this was the age of artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc., where GPT3 can basically write any web page for you that you ask for, yet there is a simple bug like this in a message board that seems like so 1980s. Weird.
p_gershon said
Why does my question in this thread have a scroll bar running through the middle of it? :-) Is it just me?
Because you started the line with a space which forces a non wrapped fixed width text.
I thought this was the age of artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc., where GPT3 can basically write any web page for you that you ask for, yet there is a simple bug like this in a message board that seems like so 1980s. Weird.
Perhaps the issue is not so much a bug as you implementing a feature that you do not realize exists.
p_gershon said
Just curious why Tbird (Ubuntu 21.04) always omits the last email from a search result. e.g. If I search by somebody's name, all emails except the most recent one appear in the search result. It is extraordinarily misleading since one of the main reasons for searching is to see whether I replied the someone's final mail. Tbird has tripped me up a couple of times on this, indicating that I did not. If I do the same search on the same account with Apple Mail, it shows my final response. The Tbird situation is worse than not doing the search at all. Yes it must be just a very rookie programming error like starting a loop at 1 instead of 0 or something like that. Why do people say Tbird is the go-to mail app, when it still has bugs like this after 78 iterations? It seems like too basic an error to be just accidental Just curious. Of course if someone can point to something I am doing wrong, I stand corrected. Thanks, Paul
I am unable to replicate this on Windows. So it could be you have a bad index. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database or it could be something specific to your distribution of Linux. My understanding is your distribution builds from source with some custom code to place in the the repository. Perhaps try the build from Thunderbird.net