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I have always wondered this. When a site like "MAterial for Mkdocs" can implement such a featureful search (with autocomplete, spellcorrect and such) in a browser for a website, how could it be this hard for a desktop application with several orders of magnitude of resources at its disposal?


There’s no technical reason, it’s just a poor implementation.

I use “notmuch” for email and it can index over two decades of emails in seconds. Search is then instantaneous.

TBH, thunderbird could just use notmuch under the hood.


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"You can do it yourself" is never an acceptable reply to a criticism of a piece of software.




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