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22 Jul 2005, 08:27 AM | #1 |
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Ability to search ALL folders
I want the ability to search **all** my folders. It would make it easier to get emails I need to file the right away and also to get ones I need to delete to the trash folder.
for example: I search for an email with the subject of "Historical Quotes" and the I would search ALL folders and then get the email search results for each folder. If this could be implemented, I would be so grateful! |
30 Jul 2005, 07:56 AM | #2 |
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I'll me-too that. I was utterly dumbfounded that fm did not have this.
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10 Aug 2005, 01:48 AM | #3 |
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I agree - this would be very useful - at the moment I either have to use my mail client or go into each of my folders on Fastmail - which takes some time!
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10 Aug 2005, 03:46 AM | #4 |
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+1 (i do think this one comes up once in a while)
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8 Sep 2005, 10:27 AM | #5 |
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I hope its not wrong to bump this to page 1. I'm trying to find an email related to a password and its going to take forever to find it (if it exists) and it'd be so nice to enter the keyword and search ALL FOLDERS so I can find it (if it exists). I have a LOT of folders and its going to take forever to search them all individually.
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8 Sep 2005, 11:12 AM | #6 |
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This has been requested many times in the past. Fastmail doesn't feel that this feature is important enough to give it priority.
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8 Sep 2005, 01:40 PM | #7 |
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Just to add to the chorus: I do hope that fastmail makes a "universal search" function, a priority. This is the one thing that I would probably use on an almost daily (and certainly weekly) basis that fastmail really lacks. At some point, hopefully fastmail will respond with some action to their users demand for this function.
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26 Sep 2005, 04:55 AM | #8 |
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I agree, this functionality would be REALLY nice! Keep this thread alive :-)
\Rolf |
26 Sep 2005, 05:30 AM | #9 | |
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(might need to be careful of BW use if you download all messages at once?) Sherry |
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26 Sep 2005, 06:43 AM | #10 |
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I do have that set up with Thunderbird, so I guess I could try that.......and then move messages to and from folders? Would that work?
Eventually, I'd like to do it with the webmail rather than the mail client (i.e. Outlook Express). |
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Sherry |
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26 Sep 2005, 07:20 AM | #12 |
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Perhaps This will help.
When you get there look down to the one that says "Thunderbird:Help Documentation:Finding Information in Messages ..." (I think it's the third hit) That should take you to a page explaining how to do your searches... Sherry |
26 Sep 2005, 08:22 PM | #13 |
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until fastmail offer multiple folder search I will just have one big archive folder which all old mail is filed into.
The search works fine but I would expect it uses loads of resources for a ~ 500mb search... This is kind of my way of implementing g-mail style functionality. |
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What better indication of an important feature than it "has been requested many times in the past"? |
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8 Oct 2005, 11:51 AM | #15 |
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this is way too complicated to do in IMAP. I need to delete a bulk of emails (clean up folders) but its very hard to do this folder by folder and takes a lot of time and patience. I'd love to be able to search for an email across ALL folders via the webmail and not using the downloading client.
Please, fastmail consider this......... |
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