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force thunderbird global seach in trash folders too

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kmc
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Hi,

On a Thunderbird 38.3 / Debian stretch with multiple accounts, When doing a global search on a text string or email address, Thunderbird do not lists corresponding messages in Trash boxes. This is not convenient. Sometimes I need global search to look in absolutely all folders, whatever the time it would cost. Is there a way to do that ?

Thanks,

Hi, On a Thunderbird 38.3 / Debian stretch with multiple accounts, When doing a global search on a text string or email address, Thunderbird do not lists corresponding messages in Trash boxes. This is not convenient. Sometimes I need global search to look in absolutely all folders, whatever the time it would cost. Is there a way to do that ? Thanks,

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3036306

Trash Properties, General, 'Include messages in this folder in Global Search results'.

After changing the Properties, it may be necessary to rebuild the search database:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database

Modified by sfhowes