83001 - Search results window does not show To: field

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[emmet]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010526
BuildID:    2001052620

I have (hmm) years of sent mail in a folder 'store' and
when I search it the results window tells me who the
sender is (me) but not who it was addressed To:
Such a piece of information can be very useful.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[laurel]

I'm not sure I understand what you want -- to clarify:  Is it that you'd like to
see a To:/Recipient column in the search results list?   
You can open the message, which would expose the addressee headers.  

Comment 2

[emmet]

A head's up for this bug.

There should be a recipient (To) field in the mail search results window.

Say I occasionally send invoices to people for bits of work I do. One day I get
phoned up and asked to resend an old invoice that has been lost. So I do an
advanced search across all my mailboxes for the word 'invoice' in the subject. I
get thirty of these but which one was the one that I sent to him? Do I have to
open *on average half of them* to find out?

Comment 3

[emmet]

Attachment: draft patch in text to fix bug

Never produced a patch for the Mozilla code base before and have no build
system available to me -- so no idea if it works at all.

The patch assumes that if the XUL and dtd is changed then the c++ code can
access the new XUL column. Maybe, maybe not.

Comment 4

[emmet]

Attachment: patch created with WinCVS 'Query->Diff selection', fixes bug, tested on Win2k

Comment 5

[Navin Gupta]

can you attach cvs -uw diffs

Comment 6

[emmet]

Attachment: same patch recreated

cd mailnews/base; cvs -w diff

(cvs -uw diffs refused the -u option and did not recognise 'diffs')

Comment 7

[Navin Gupta]

Sorry, I meant cvs -uw diff not diffs.

Comment 8

[emmet]

Both my solaris and Win2K version of cvs does not offer a -u option. The attachment
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=96992&action=view is created with

cvs -w diff

I hope that is ok.

Comment 9

[emmet]

Attachment: cvs -w diff

The previous patches did not allow the received column to be sorted in the
search
dialog, this patch does. I've also banged around on this one quite a bit, I
pretty sure it doesn't break anything.

There is one flaw, the received column does not appear unless requested from
the column picker. This is because the XUL in threadPane.xul defines the column
as hidden="true" (so it is absent, like 'location', from normal threadpane
use), however, this means the 'hidden' state can not 'persist', hence the
default invisibility. I can not see any way around this unless a new
searchthreadPane.xul file is used.

Using 'cvs -w diff > file' I still can not get 'patch -p0 < file' to patch the
mozilla source without it asking me for the file paths (which I can, with
success, copy from the patch output).

Sorry Navin for the hassel.

Comment 10

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 11

[emmet]

Somewhere down the line someone added a 'recipient:' field to the search window.
Thanks you.