Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/13/2012 10:14 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes, >> I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and >> click on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the >> messages. >> >> Maybe kmail, or maybe mutt.... >> > I am not sure what you mean. > > In thunderbird, Shift-Ctrl-K allows you to set a filter for messages ... > it allows you to filter on Sender, Recipient, Subject, or Body > > If you press Shift-Ctrl-F you can search messages and there is a > dropdown box for searching that has more than 20 things you can search > including body. Ah, but that's my problem: it *used* to be there, and isn't, any more. And when I want to search body, I 100% of the time need to set more conditions above it, starting with date. mark