would it be possible to filter by same subject ? I tried to look at the code, but I’m a little bit confused.

I’m a little dismayed at the conversion of a small searchbox (the old quickfilter search box) that could be placed on any toolbar desired, into a huge new toolbar that cannot be modified in any way.

I do see the argument, and like some of the new features (the ability to create your own combinations of criteria), but I have a question…

Is this coded in such a way that the old quickfilter searchbox could be brought back but with some of the new features?

What I’d like is the old searchbox (I place everything on my menu bar, then use the Autohide extension to auto-hide/show it on mouse-over, just like the Windows Taskbar), but with the nice little Sticky pin added immediately to the left, and a new ‘select/drop-down’ menu for selecting the individual criteria – ie, you click in the drop-down, start clicking on the criteria until you get the ones you want enabled/disabled, then click off the menu and it applies your changes.

The global database search allows you to search based on e-mail address using autocomplete. Hit control-k/weird-apple-button-k to get into the box, and then start typing the name or e-mail address of the person you want to see all your communications with. When they pop up, select them and hit enter. Then you get the pretty global search faceted view and can hit “view as list” button once you’ve filtered down the results to something manageable and want to see them in the standard thread pane view. (And then you can use the quick filter bar on that too!)

We will be doing more with this in the future, including likely exposing a ‘pivot’ type functionality using gloda… it actually is pretty ridiculously easy to do…

For years I’ve been pining after a feature Eudora had 10 years ago: you could control-click on the email address cell of a message row, and it would do a sort of auto-filter/sort on messages from that email address. It was terrific for finding previous messages This is not exactly that, but it’s partway there.

RE: searching multiple folders — the pivot won’t be terribly useful for those of us who keep up with inbox zero, since theoretically we’ve already archived any messages we would want to find in a pivot. Maybe eventually it can be smart about the official Archive folder and include that in the search, when your starting message is in the Inbox?

K and Frank, as Richard says, you can use the quick filter on saved searches / virtual folders, but that’s the extent of it.

In terms of global / gloda searches, we’ll be doing a lot more with that after Thunderbird 3.1 ships.