XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-15 04:57, Paul wrote:   
   [...]   
   > > You can use Offline Mode and sync the server content with your client, so   
   > > the client has a copy of all the messages currently on the server.   
   > > Then when you search the group, you get a more realistic sample   
   > > of the message bodies and claims about what somebody said.   
   > >   
   > > Fri, 11/17/2023       478,483,218 comp.lang.c         <=== only created   
   for offline mode (whole messages)   
   > > Thu, 10/05/2023                27 comp.lang.c.dat     <=== (filter   
   definitions)   
   > > Sat, 12/13/2025        50,425,664 comp.lang.c.msf     <=== Mork Summary   
   File (headers only)   
   > >   
   > > I've only done this the one time, as a demo of the file sizes.   
   >   
   > My Thunderbird is set to not cache the bodies of messages. As a   
   > consequence, body search is greyed out or not in the list at all.   
   >   
   > This is because I an using leafnode, an nntp proxy server. It stores   
   > locally all messages, so thunderbird effectively gets a copy sent from   
   > the local disk, fast.   
      
     Hmm!? Strange! I assume Thunderbird can search IMAP servers/folders   
   without local caching, so I would expect it to be able to do the same   
   with NNTP.   
      
     I use a similar setup as you, but on Windows instead of on Linux and   
   with Hamster instead of leafnode and with tin instead of Thunderbird.   
      
     With tin, I can do body searching both in locally cached (by Hamster)   
   groups and in remote groups on the real news server (NIN, in my and your   
   case).   
      
     So this seems a - somewhat strange - limitation in Thunderbird.   
      
   > Setting TB to cache bodies would mean having two copies on my disk of   
   > every message.   
      
     AFAICT, Paul meant this as a one time operation: Fetch *all* the   
   messages from the server, do your search and then dispose of the fetched   
   messages. 'Even' :-) in Thunderbird, you could do that with an *extra*   
   News account - i.e. in addition to the one which you've already   
   configured in Thunderbird - and fetch all the messages directly from the   
   server - i.e. not via leafnode - directly into Thunderbird's local   
   storage.   
      
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