Hi All, Just wondering what the roadmap is for multisearch functionality?

No idea. I can find no reference to it is Bugzilla. SO I would guess it is not even on the radar. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home

I might be a bit dim, but how do you actually search the support forums, as I suspect that this question has been asked before. There are no results returned for multisearch or RFC 7377 or ESEARCH.

Well I tried searching using google https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=RFC+7377+site%3Amozilla.org

Also is it possible to return search results as a vertical list instead of tiled responses, there's a reason why google doesn't do this.

Are you talking about the faceted view Vs a list. Seriously there are a lot more than one search in Thunderbird and I am guessing because of that. The global search AFAIK does not do server searches, so are you using Find perhaps (ctrl+Shift+F) The best I can suggest to click the show as list in the results if this is about global search (Ctrl+K) .

I might be a bit dim, but how do you actually search the support forums, as I suspect that this question has been asked before. There are no results returned for multisearch or RFC 7377 or ESEARCH. Also is it possible to return search results as a vertical list instead of tiled responses, there's a reason why google doesn't do this.

You seem to have figured out how to search the forum. The tiles appear when there are no search results. Search results appear in a list.

Thanks for the response. Just trying to gauge how IMAP and enterprise functionality fares in Thunderbirds future roadmap. There's not much information available in this regard. https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap.

I was talking about using the internal search of this website not google. Good to know you can use google.

But in relation to the search functionality of Firefox, when you have 100s users and terabytes of data, expecting search to occur locally is dumb. Firefox does allow searches to occur on the server, which is good, however in environments with many hundreds of folders this currently requires issuing of a search request for each folder which is a bit slow.

To solve this problem we've had users try to optimise search, by changing it to a local search which has then swamped their workstation. Any hints on how to stop users from doing this would be welcome.

From an ignorant and curious person: I assumed that server software had such functions, not clients. Do other clients have these functions? And server software does not?

The server has support for IMAP multisearch, however the thunderbird mail client, or any client needs to be able to support it. For instance, emclient supports IMAP multisearch. But it doesn't support linux so it's not an option.

I'm not really aware of what's important to the Thunderbird developers. This is why the roadmap would be great, even if it was a draft.

Enterprise configuration appears of thunderbird appears weak at best but it's difficult to understand if this is deliberate or an oversight.