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      • Anonymous commented  · 

        Hi How is this coming along protonmail?

        Can you please update advanced search so that you can find certain words in emails so that you can find older messages better. An advanced serach which looks through the index of content more thoroughly. I've typed the word 'sound' and only certain emails show up and I know that I have other emails that refer to that word.

      • Ruth Grant commented  · 

        Yes - and to be able to search the contents of forwarded messages.

      • L R commented  · 

        Please, please get this feature working soon! I haven't been able to transition completely because I need full search functionality. Most of my contacts who have joined also need this badly.

      • Tim K commented  · 

        I haven't been able to recommend or make a strong case that a couple of social justice organizations I work for switch to protonmail for lack of this feature. It's just crucial to any kind of productive workflow, and is a consistent irritant -- and my only problem -- when it comes to my personal use of protonmail.

      • jonathan commented  · 

        Please please please implement this feature as soon as you possibly can. This is so essential for me and many people I know (it is the main reason that many of my friends will not yet switch to Protonmail). As obvious as it sounds: for many people, finding older emails is a very important activity and one that is nearly impossible without being able to search the text body of emails. At the moment, whenever I have to search for emails, I switch from the browser email application to the a desktop application such as thunderbird (which I don't like using and is otherwise useless to me) via the bridge. I will be so happy when I don't have to use this cumbersome workaround!

      • Anonymous commented  · 

        Honestly, I wonder why this hasn’t been done already. I can find any emails.

      • Christopher Yee Mon commented  · 

        This is an absolute most have for me. I used my max number of votes on it lol. That's how important it is to me. I've lost a lot of time trying to find emails that a full text search would have be able to find

      • Anonymous commented  · 

        This is really a must have for me. Please add it asap.

      • Anonymous commented  · 

        I definitely see it as a race between tutanota and protonmail. Which one gives us text search first!

      • Brian commented  · 

        I won't use them until they add this feature. I think ProtonMail knows that it is important to most, so I don't think it is a lack of motivation or ignorance. The question here is how to do it. You need to implement client-side indexing. And I guess through JavaScript... And then I guess encrypt the indexes and store them on the server. Then how do you prevent the need for the client to download all the indexes to do a search? Maybe you encrypt the individual index keys which point to encrypted email references...

        But again, I can't use this as my primary email until this feature is realized. For now I will look to host my own email.

      • Luci Von Oya commented  · 

        Protonmail, Don't you realise that all the leading general email services have the Search Email Text feature, with Google winning the war on having one of the preferable email account services - regardless of it's security encryption features?
        You will be in a position of strength, the sooner you get your Search Email Text up and running.
        Thank You!

      • Adrián commented  · 

        Planned when pls? this is fundamental for us to migrate 23 accounts from outlook to protonmail. thanks

      • Robert commented  · 

        I hope this will be implemented in a secure manner with client-side indexing. The index can be either stored in local HTML5 database or stored in encrypted blocks server-side.

      • A. K. commented  · 

        When approximately this feature will be implemented?

      • Anonymous commented  · 

        The only reason I had to drop proton mail as my main email address provider, was the lack of this function. I am just waiting for them to find a way to search by text, and I will go back to proton. Any idea when proton will be able to develop this?

      • Nicola Jelmorini commented  · 

        I have already suggested some time ago this functionality, because searching only the object is frequently not enough.

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