if i search for a mail and if its not downloaded on the local storage, will TB look for it on the gmail server ?
I am using TB for my corporate mails with 1 server + 15 Thin Clients network, there are up to 15 mail id's. if i allow TB to download whole inbox then it would download about 150 GB of data. so i have configured TB to download only 30 days mails, but if we are required to search old e mails, then if i search in TB will TB look for the content on Gmail Server?
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Thunderbird searches through the imap files in Thunderbird profile on your computer. It is not searching the server itself.
If you start from Edit/Find/Search Messages (Ctrl+Shift+F) and check 'Run search on server', I expect it would search all messages, although some of the search criteria are not available, e.g. Attachment Status, and the process would be slower than for downloaded mail.