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Thunderbird Global Search db size or mailbox size limit? Issues with full-text search and a large offline All Mail folder (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by meonkeys@lemmy.world to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I've downloaded an entire "All Mail" folder for a gmail account using IMAP to a locally running Thunderbird v136.0.1 desktop client. Global search works, but it fails to find some messages that are easily found in a folder-specific search. This All Mail folder has 165,881 messages, but the activity manager shows "Indexed 73955 messages..." after a full rebuild, I think meaning that indexing finished and it only indexed some of those 165,881 messages. Why doesn't it index all of them? I'm not getting any errors, although I haven't enabled any special logging and I don't have anything open except the main email window view and the activity manager. Is there some limit on how big global-messages-db.sqlite can be (mine is 468MiB), how many messages can be processed, or something like that?

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[–] meonkeys@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I switched to Recoll for offline email full text search. Works well.