Search message body
Search message body for any word.
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Alex Rowan commented
Search of encrypted emails is already being done on Tutanota, so it is possible. I dislike Tutanota for other reasons and have decided to use ProtonMail, despite considerable extra expense. The lack of search (except of course via Bridge) is a big minus for ProtonMail.
Reference:
Tutanota Is the First to Enable Search on Encrypted Data
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Chris commented
This is definitely a must do! What about a personal encrypted search index that updates when we connect?
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ms commented
Status: Completed
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L R commented
Is this still in progress? It is absolutely essential for full transition and functionality. It is labeled as "planned" on Aug 30, 2015 - is it actually going to happen?
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John commented
When im in my inbox and want to search for an email, the results are for all folders.
If im searching in my inbox, it would be nice for the search to default inbox only instead of having to select advanced>inbox location.
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Andrew commented
PLEASE get this going. It's almost a deal-breaker for the whole service.
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Ross commented
Please enable this as soon as possible. It's important if you expect people to move from Gmail that you give them the option to find their emails by the content. Same with the content of calendars; please make the calendar searchable too.
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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.
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Ruth Grant commented
Yes - and to be able to search the contents of forwarded messages.
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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.
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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.
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Anonymous commented
I'm a paid user and donater, my company is considering switching everything to PM, but until you allow real search, it isn't viable. And we don't want to use bridge with a third party app. Desktops and smartphones are pretty powerful these days, give us the option to decrypt the message contents and hold it in Memory so you can search PLEASE!
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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!
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Asher Gordon commented
More advanced search options, like the ability to search for messages from bob@protonmail.com OR joe@protonmail.ch, kind of like filters, but searches.
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giostark commented
Yep im agree with the request also if i understand the concept "Because ProtonMail uses end-to-end encryption, we cannot read any of your messages or attachments, and therefore we currently cannot search through the message body." I would like to have a way to deep search using the browser or the phone app. Develop a encrypted search engine would be mandatory. If I use the search could be because I dont remember where the message is located. I cant search trough all a sender messages finding the info i need...
What about this consideration?
"Keywords search in the body
Every mail (M) opened by the client could be processed clientside to store on a db a map:
crypted(lowercase(*keyword*)) -> *M*.id
The client can search keywords asking to server all the messages ids mapped by crypted(lowercase(keyword)). It would be impossible to understand which plaintext keywords are in a message, right?
Probably an issue can be the space occupied by this db but I guess is not that much considering that usually the biggest part of a usual mailbox are the attachments that will not be indexed. For instance the body of the welcome ProtonMail message is about 6kB or around 270 unique keywords. Every entry should be around 30B . For a 6KB message the overhead would be around 10KB with the simplest design. Using lists, can be even smaller. And this was a message without attachments."
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DG commented
I look forward to more and more robust email search abilities in ProtonMail in the New Year 2018!
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Anonymous commented
Honestly, I wonder why this hasn’t been done already. I can find any emails.
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Anonymous commented
Searching keywords in the message body is imperative for this product to be able to compete with gmail and the like
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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
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Anonymous commented
This is really a must have for me. Please add it asap.