161338 - Add 'From, To, CC, or Bcc' to Advanced Search Messages headers dropdown to search all addresses (Sender, Recipient option)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Max Waterman]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020727
BuildID:    2002072703

In the Advanced Search panel, the options are :

Subject
Sender
Body
Date
Status
To
CC
To or CC
Age in Days

One thing I find myself doing is combining 'To or CC' and 'Sender'[1] to see
what emails I have sent to someone and what emails that someone has sent me. I'm
sure this is a common search.

Please consider adding a 'To, CC, or From' option explicitly.

Thanks.

Max.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Advanced Search panel
2.
3.

Actual Results:  No 'To, CC, or From' option

Expected Results:  ...

[1] Wouldn't it be more consistent for 'Sender' to be 'From', so that it is in
line with the names of the header fields?

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Confirming as an RFE. Max, what would you think of wording this as "Any address?"

Comment 2

[Max Waterman]

> Any address?

Hmm. I guess that is fine, but I prefer 'To, CC, or From'. Not sure why.

The functionality is what I want though, so I'm fine with whatever is thought is
most user friendly.

Max.

Comment 3

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Should include Bcc as search criterion - so 'Any address' or something akin
might be appropriate.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Should include Bcc as search criterion - so 'Any address' or something akin
> might be appropriate.

Max, OK to add Bcc to summary?  Bcc is Bug 213318

Comment 6

[Max Waterman]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Should include Bcc as search criterion - so 'Any address' or something akin
> > might be appropriate.
> 
> Max, OK to add Bcc to summary?  Bcc is Bug 213318

Sounds ok to me.

Max.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

mod summary

Comment 8

[Kent James (:rkent)]

The search terms now include a "From, To, CC, or BCC" term, so is there anything remaining to do with this bug?

Comment 9

[Max Waterman]

I don't see it in the version I'm using (2.0.0.21), but I guess it's implemented in a newer version. If so, I'd say it's done and can close.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no, it's not in version 3 TB, nor in SM 2.  rkent's work in bug 187768 implemented bcc in "Views" - didn't affect this bug, n Bug 310359 "Search Messages" nor quick search bug 462578

Comment 11

[:Dossy Shiobara]

I have a patch in progress that adds the "From, To, Cc or Bcc" to the Advanced Search drop-down (thanks to the changes already made for bug 310359), but it doesn't actually do anything if/when you click the "Search" button - I suspect nsMsgSearchAdapter::EncodeImapTerm needs to have nsMsgSearchAttrib::AllAddresses added to its switch statement and otherwise handled somehow?

Once I get the search actually working, I'll upload the patch.

Comment 12

[:Dossy Shiobara]

I believe this bug now depends on bug 488577 for the actual search to work.

Comment 13

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> no, it's not in version 3 TB, nor in SM 2.  rkent's work in bug 187768
> implemented bcc in "Views" - didn't affect this bug, n Bug 310359 "Search
> Messages" nor quick search bug 462578

Both in SM2 and TB3 we now have "From, To, CC or BCC" option as a header dropdown of Advanced Search Messages dialogue and they work for filtering POP3 account folders. So the option as requested by this bug's comment #0 is implemented. So afasik, the only remaining issue is that IMAP online search for BCCs doesn't work, which is covered in bug 488577 as per comment #12.

--> This bug should be "Resolved Fixed"

Wayne, any reason why this bug should stay open?

Comment 14

[Igor Velkov]

Search in toolbar ("search subject and recepients" for sent folder) still not search in bcc

Comment 15

[Kent James (:rkent)]

(In reply to comment #14)
> Search in toolbar ("search subject and recepients" for sent folder) still not
> search in bcc

Actually it does search for BCC - and that is the only on quick search term that does. There was a very long discussion about the proper wording for that, and the words that you see are the compromise that we arrived at with string deadlines looming.

Comment 16

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Resolving fixed as explained in comment #13. Wayne, please reopen if you feel otherwise.

Comment 17

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

someone else will need to v.fixed for SM as I don't normally test mail there

Comment 18

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090903 SeaMonkey/2.0b2

Tested Advanced Search ("Search messages") in German build of latest Seamonkey.
Tested message with following headers:

To: Tome
CC: Copy
BCC: blind
Subject: asdf

- To or CC-Search for "contains: blind" returns nothing (ok)
- Subject, To, CC or BCC Search for "contains: blind" returns only this message (ok)
- I even checked message source to ensure the word "blind" is nowhere else in the message.
- if "blind" is only in message body, above search incl. bcc returns nothing (ok)
- we can't test for false positives from other headers as this search contains all the relevant headers.

If that's enough to verify fixed for SM, please do.