How do I search for emails by IP address? It works wrong for me because of the dot?
I am having older Thunderbird 102.13.1 and when i input into a search field for example: 37.19.223. or "37.19.223." or "37\.19\.223\." it always stupidly and uselessly output tons of messages that contains unrelated IPs:
([76.223.177. [10.223.144.96]
highlighting number 223 as if i have searched just for this number 223
I think that it is reasonable to expect from TB to output only search results where email contains 37.19.223. without any hack, escaping or regex or whatever (if you know a workaround, please kindly share it).
Maybe newer TB works better? Anyone tried? If it works same way, can you please kindly ask developers to fix this?
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Thunderbird tokenizer makes a mess if numbers with decimal points. It is that simple. I am sure there is already more than one bug report in bugzilla discussing the failings of the global search and indexer.
These two pop out first https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541349 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544580 which talks about how numbers are handled.
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