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vladimiry / ElectronMail

Unofficial ProtonMail Desktop App
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Accessing Protonmail content searching #466

Closed RobertKirchner9 closed 2 years ago

RobertKirchner9 commented 2 years ago

Protonmail recently adopted a feature allowing users to search email content. Is there any way to access this feature via Electron Mail?

vladimiry commented 2 years ago

Protonmail's content searching feature is explicitly disabled in the app. It won't make sense to enable it here as @protonmail stores the index in the browser's "local storage" but the app by design runs all the browser-specific storages in the in-memory mode only. So if you enable @protonmail content search in the app then on the next app start @protonmail will start downloading and indexing all the mails from scratch as the storage is empty.

By the way, the app comes with full-text search since v2.2.0 and "unlimited"/code-based search since v4.11.0.

vladimiry commented 2 years ago

the app by design runs all the browser-specific storages in the in-memory mode only

There is no plan for changing this logic.