It is strange because there is an "Perform search on server" option. I
guess the option has a different purpose than I believed.
Mike
On 1/15/2021 8:22 AM, Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> How do I search for old messages/threads in this newsgroup using
>> Thunderbird? I cannot get any results older than from 2019. I have to
>> use the Web interface to search for older posts. Thanks.
>
> IIRC Thunderbird can only search through messages that it has downloaded. You
> will have to coerce it to download a greater number of messages than it does by
> default.
>
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