At the JISC Comms upskilling day yesterday, Ross described how to create a saved search searching for occurrences of your name across all mail folders in a mail server. This means that all messages from mailing lists can be filed into per-list mail boxes using filters and then those mentioning your name re-aggregated into a virtual folder, so you don’t miss emails that are follow up to something you posted weeks ago or emails to obscure mailling lists when someone mentions me by name.
Go to File -> New -> Saved Search … , fill in the dialog box and choose which mail boxes you want to be searched.
Despite the warning, I’ve not found “Search Online” slow (but then I only have a few thousands of emails on this server).
Saved searches in thunderbird do not copy or move the emails as filters do, so when you read, delete or flag the emails in the virtual folder that the saved search creates, you are actually acting on the emails in their original folder.
Your dialog may look slightly different to the one pictured here, which is from Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 on Ubuntu.
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