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[Run][New Plugin] Searching emails #3439

Open ZaninAndrea opened 4 years ago

ZaninAndrea commented 4 years ago

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

It would be nice being able to search through your mails in PowerToys run. Mails should show up as search results just like files.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

If possible PowerToys could integrate directly with Windows Mail so that you don't need to handle the mail fetching and the accounts.

samuelhnrq commented 4 years ago

Does normal windows (start menu) search already indexes the mail? I don't use the mail app sorry.

ZaninAndrea commented 4 years ago

Yes it does (at least in Windows 10), but you have to filter the results to only get emails by clicking on "more -> email" on top of the search window, if you don't do this emails won't show up at all (the same filtering can be done writing "email: " before the query).

crutkas commented 4 years ago

we can, i think this is a good toggle switch.

samuelhnrq commented 4 years ago

I not even know if power toy run uses the same "source" as windows search does it? Is this a question of just further tapping the same data source?

jkurkure commented 1 month ago

This would be quite useful.