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How to search a date as text (ctrl-k) in all the mails (eg 20.02.2019)

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Thunderbird 60.5.1 german on w10_64_Home_Version1809:

I want to search all mails with a date witten (eg: 20.02.2019) within the text (not the sent-date!). 

If I enter the date in the search-field (ctrl-k) Thunderbird finds all mails with the text "2019" in and not the exact string ("20.02.2019"). Any idea?

Using "20.02.2019" no success..., using '20.02.2019' no success... Thanks in advance...

Thunderbird 60.5.1 german on w10_64_Home_Version1809: I want to search all mails with a date witten (eg: 20.02.2019) within the text (not the sent-date!). If I enter the date in the search-field (ctrl-k) Thunderbird finds all mails with the text "2019" in and not the exact string ("20.02.2019"). Any idea? Using "20.02.2019" no success..., using '20.02.2019' no success... Thanks in advance...

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cat7
cat7 Question owner

Thanks, but this doesn't solve my problem: 1) 2) The search only checks one folder and not all of them. And on toplevel, there ist only ctrl-k search... 3) If I use full text search (using Enter when nothing found), because he didn't find anything, it's the same result as ctrl-k Thanks!

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cat7
cat7 Question owner

Thanks, it works, but there should be no need to do a workaround. but anyway, thanks a lot for the work-around!