1673926 - Search returns incorrect information

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 752844

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Frankie]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0

Steps to reproduce:

I searched in the global search located in the menu toolbar for e-mail messages containing the word "severance." I tried searching for the word with and without double-quotes.

Actual results:

I received several hits showing messages containing the word "severance," but I also received many hits containing the words "several," "severally," "severely," "severe," "severed," "severs," "severity," "severable," etc. These words were highlighted in the search result.

Expected results:

I should have gotten e-mail message in the search return that contained the word "severance." The e-mail messages returned showing the non-searched word did not contain the searched word. This significantly reduces the value of the search feature. In fact, most of the e-mail messages that were returned did not contain the searched-for word.