Thunderbird: Show mails from sender - easy and fast

Imagine you read a mail from "Dr. Foo Bar".

Now you want to see all mails send from or to him.

How do you do this?

I only know the complicated way:

• Ctrlshiftf search for mails in "from" (with annoying typing the mail address again)
• Ctrlshiftf search for mails in "to"

Why is there not such an entry in the context menu of the mail sender?

Is there no easy to use way to jump from reading a mail from "Dr Foo Bar" to a list of all messages from/to him?

Update

Mails can be stored in different folders. Solutions which only work for one folder won't help me.

3 Answers

To search all emails in all folders, sent to or from a particular email address:

1. Right click on an email address and select "Copy Email Address"
2. Right click on the [Search... <Ctrl+K>] box select Paste, then Enter or just type CtrlK, CtrlV, and Enter

However, you might not like Thunderbird's default search results view.

If you prefer the view when you click on "Open email as list", shown below

then the best solution is to install a Thunderbird plugin, which will make this the default.

1. From the menu select Tools > Add-ons
2. Type "search as" into the search box
3. Click the install button next to Search as list 3.0
4. Restart Thunderbird

I don't think there's an easy way to see both send from and to in a single window.

But you can easily sort by sender from your inbox view, just select an email from that person and click on the From header:

You can do the same in your "Sent" folder too.

You might consider the quicker quicksearch add-on. It allows you to right-click on a message in the message list and immediately do a search in the quick search box for that sender's email address or domain. There are some things to note:

• The Ctrl-Alt-H keyboard shortcut doesn't work in some versions of Thunderbird.
• It includes the display name in the search, not just the email address.
• The domain search parses the address poorly, so you may end up with example.com> in the search box.
• You can't right-click on the sender address in the message panel; only right-clicking in the message list works.

That said, it does this one job pretty well in my experience.