Can I use booleans (AND, OR) in Thunderbird's quick filter field?

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Is there a way to use in Thunderbird's quick filter bar to use Boolean filters (like AND, OR, NOT)?

I would like to be able to (for example) search on emails send by either Joe OR Jane. See below for an example, which obviously doesn't work.

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Note: I don't want to use the "search all messages" options (wonky, slow interface) or "Saved Searches" feature (too cumbersome for one-off searches). So there is no point in suggestion these as a workaround.

Note 2: This is kind of a generalization of my earlier question " Inverse Thunderbird's Quick filter selection? ".

Rabarberski

Posted 2012-01-26T09:16:46.230

Reputation: 7 494

Answers

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Full expression searching (including subtraction) is available through an add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmailui/

Chad Wellington

Posted 2012-01-26T09:16:46.230

Reputation: 74

1THanks for the links. Useful extension. To get the result from my example, I have to type from:(Joe or Jane) – Rabarberski – 2012-11-08T09:13:08.087

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Simply use | as OR operation resp. a space character as AND operation.

monki

Posted 2012-01-26T09:16:46.230

Reputation: 55

1"resp." meaning what exactly? – suspectus – 2015-10-27T11:46:40.983

resp. == respectively – math – 2016-11-09T08:59:44.703

4What about NOT? – smartmouse – 2017-04-02T13:05:24.893

To remove messages that contain a certain criteria you may use -, e.g. -ft:trump – math – 2018-09-28T07:08:36.980

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