[Users] Some claws mail questions.

[Chris Schrauben]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:18:08 +1200
Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> (1) Searching through messages.  Is it possible to search through
> messages (for e.g. a specified "From") in *all* folders, rather than
> one folder at a time?
> 
> Since I have a huge number of folders it is tedious to search one
> folder at a time.  (And I sometimes have no idea where I've put
> something!  Also slip-ups in drag-and-drop seem to have the
> unfortunate effect of moving a message to some random location of
> which I have no idea.)
> 
> I suspect that the answer to this question is "No" and I'll just have
> to learn to live with it.  (I got used to being able to "search
> everything" in Thunderbird.)
> 
Yes, you can.

I have over a dozen email accounts, all incoming messages from
all but to of those accounts go to one Mail box (ClawsMail (MH)). That
mail box has hundreds of folders. Start the search at the Mail box
level e.g. ClawsMail (MH) using Quick Search. When the search is
completed you will find a magnifying glass in place of the folder icon
on the folders where the search condition was found. 

The to exception accounts are; one is IMAP, the other is a
POP3 account with it's own mail box (MH). The one caveat of this
method is it does not work across different Mail boxes or different IMAP
accounts.