I have this problem on Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit with Thunderbird 17.0.6 For some reason, I can not remember encountering it when I was using Ubuntu 12.10 (not sure if the TB version was different...)
It is fairly frustrating as 99% of the time it the most recent result that I am looking for, so I have to wait and see emails dating back to 2009 being listed as results. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885542 Title: thunderbird email search should begin with the most recent email then progress to the oldest (what the user is searching for is more likely to be in recent rather than older emails) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/885542/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs