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Thunderbird with maildir: Windows 10 search does not index messages

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Michail Pappas
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I'm using TB on Windows 10 boxes and have switched to maildir, due to the fact that a lot of my users had the bad habit of not splitting their large mailboxes into smaller ones. Coupled with the AV running in the background, cpu resources were constantly bogged down...

I recall that with the default mbox format, Windows 10 search would index my messages and return results directly, without even having thunderbird open. This does not seem to work and I'm trying to find out the culprit. Any advice offered would be appreciated.

I'm using TB on Windows 10 boxes and have switched to maildir, due to the fact that a lot of my users had the bad habit of not splitting their large mailboxes into smaller ones. Coupled with the AV running in the background, cpu resources were constantly bogged down... I recall that with the default mbox format, Windows 10 search would index my messages and return results directly, without even having thunderbird open. This does not seem to work and I'm trying to find out the culprit. Any advice offered would be appreciated.

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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I don't think you can expect Windows Search to support TB's maildir format any time soon:

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/releasenotes/

"Thunderbird now allows the conversion of folders from mbox to maildir format and vice versa. This is an experimental feature that needs to be enabled by setting the preference mail.store_conversion_enabled. Note that this functionality does not not work if the option "Allow Windows Search/Spotlight to search messages" is selected."

"Many desktop search engines will have problems with Thunderbird's version of maildir." (link)

Windows indexing is probably not recommended even for mbox storage (point 4.)

You may be able to significantly improve performance by disabling AV scanning of the TB profile folder (leave background AV in place) - point 3. in the cited article.