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Feedback for developers: Fuzzy searches under Quick Filter -please no!

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Lin replied 51 minutes ago
trc2
trc2

I accidentally created an iterative loop using a forwarding Filter and bcc the sender. This resulted in me recieving multiple copies of e-mails each with subject beginning Fwd: Fwd: So I tried to clean them up by QuickFiltering for Fwd: Fwd: and I got a lot of hits for Fwd: alone. Please spare me from search engines based upon the matronly idea that I couldn't possibly know what I want to search for. -Does Quick filter support phrase search?

I accidentally created an iterative loop using a forwarding Filter and bcc the sender. This resulted in me recieving multiple copies of e-mails each with subject beginning Fwd: Fwd: So I tried to clean them up by QuickFiltering for Fwd: Fwd: and I got a lot of hits for Fwd: alone. Please spare me from search engines based upon the matronly idea that I couldn't possibly know what I want to search for. -Does Quick filter support phrase search?
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Lin
Lin
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No, it does not, but check out the add-on "Expression Search - NG"

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/expression-search-ng/

Product suggestions can be made here:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/idb-p/ideas/label-name/thunderbird

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