167295 - Search & Filter should trigger on "Sender:" header as well as "From::"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 40934

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[David A. Cobb]

Some mailings are most easily identified by the content of the "Sender:" header.
 Mail-lists particularly often keep the "From:" as received from the author but
mung the "Sender: " to identify the list.  As the RFC indicates that "Sender:"
identifies an agent of the author responsible for actually posting the mail,
this is a pretty reasonable interpretation.

However, if I select "Sender " "is " <string>, the search/filter will not see
the string in the "Sender:" header -- it should examine both "From: " and
"Sender: ".

(Using Moz 2002-09-05-08 on Win2000pro, FWIW)

Comment 1

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40934 ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate

Comment 3

[David A. Cobb]

I beg to differ.  This bug specifically requests that filters & searches test
BOTH "sender: " and "from: ".  That does come out in the commentary for
Bug#40934, but it certainly isn't obvious from the summary.  May I suggest,
then, a change in the summary of 40934?  My requirement would /not/ be satisfied
if the tag name in the filters/search dialogs were changed to "From"!

Also, this bug explicitly requests that Search be modified similarly.  I'm
guessing they use the same code but I don't know that as a fact.