359338 - cannot search tags

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Using the latest branch Thunderbird builds and the Zimbra IMAP server, I am unable to search user created tags. 

From the advanced search dialog I get the alert "the current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: parse error: zero-length content." 

If I create a saved search folder or a message view for a tag, both fail to locate any matching messages. 

I've tested with mixed and upper case tags. I've tested with messages that have only one tag and messages with multiple tags.

As it stands, tags and Zimbra's IMAP server are mostly useless for me since there is no way to display only messages that match a tag name.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

heh, the zimbra server is picky (and correct) - you're not supposed to quote keywords when doing a search. Other servers just allow it.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 244588 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

nice teamwork asa and david.

reallyDredd!  that brings back memories of the nscp days.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Wasn't dredd one of our mail servers? What's the meaning in the code? 

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Dredd was our news server, which had some custom search extensions, which never caught on with other news servers...I think the code was trying to support that extension, which basically took the imap search syntax and applied it to news. But  my memory is a bit hazy.

fixed trunk and branch.

Comment 5

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

verified fixed on the 1.8 branch using the Tbird cand build, version 2.0.0.0 (20070326). I verified on Win Vista. I created several custom tags and an advanced search was able to locate the tags fine. Adding branch verified keyword.