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Search in Thunderbird. If I search for a word such as "availability" it returns results for "available" with or without double quotes.

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Search in Thunderbird. If I search for a word such as "availability" it returns results for "available" with or without double quotes. It's a bit unhelpful that there isn't a way to force search only for what I am looking for, so I end up getting search results for the wrong thing.

Would be nice to have a wildcard search such as "availab*" which would be more intuitive.

How do I ensure it searches exactly for what I want, and not interpret my search keywords?

Cheers, Tom

Search in Thunderbird. If I search for a word such as "availability" it returns results for "available" with or without double quotes. It's a bit unhelpful that there isn't a way to force search only for what I am looking for, so I end up getting search results for the wrong thing. Would be nice to have a wildcard search such as "availab*" which would be more intuitive. How do I ensure it searches exactly for what I want, and not interpret my search keywords? Cheers, Tom

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Same for me on the same word - although it does find the word 'availability', too. Does the same on 'suitability', too.

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Yu5tiqX9og
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I think the search you described is Global Search (Edit > Find > Global Search, or Ctrl + K), and the behavior you described is stemming.

If you do not want stemming, you can use the following two search methods: 1. Edit > Find > Search Messages (Ctrl + Shift + F) 2. Quick Filter (Ctrl + Shift + K)

Reference: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-search https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/quick-filter-toolbar

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tom479
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Yes, this works better. Thank you @Yu5tiqX9og!

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