thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Add support for full text search via IMAP
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type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
- Stars
- 14k
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- Avg merge
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Description
We want users to be able to search inside message bodies on the server.
This requires some changes to the way we display (remote) search results in the message list.
See comments in PR #689
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the comments in PR #689 and tracing how remote search results are displayed in the message list. Done means users can search inside message bodies through IMAP and the resulting server-side matches are displayed correctly in the message list.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100