POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Searching newsgroup : Re: Searching newsgroup Server Time
4 May 2024 09:07:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Searching newsgroup  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 15 Jan 2021 17:44:14
Message: <60021abe@news.povray.org>
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.
> 
> --
> Tor Olav
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> https://github.com/t-o-k
> 
>


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