188822 - if i try to search for messages in any newsgroup no results ever come up

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92746

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Alex]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

same as summary...this happens even when i can see the subject that i'm
searching for...and yes...i'm spelling it right

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go into newsgroup and note a word or two in the first subject line you see
2.do a search for that word
3.

Actual Results:  
No results come up.

Expected Results:  
There should be some search results.

Comment 1

[WD]

Reporter: How are you Searching for a message?
You can type text in the "Subject or Sender Contains" box to filter the header
pane.  That WFM fine.  Win2k 2003011204

It's also possible to search using Tools -> Search Messages
This method uses a server-side search, as opposed to the client-side filter
above.  Not all NNTP servers support this search command, though.

Comment 2

[Greg Goodrich]

I've also run into this problem using Mozilla (W2K, Mozilla 1.3 release and
prior).  As a matter of fact, I stayed with Netscape 4.74, 4.75 for a long time
because it could do this search, and mozilla could not.  It still doesn't work
in mozilla.  I am using the tools->search messages menu, but this seems to also
be the case for all searches except for the filter bar.  The filter bar helps a
lot, but it doesn't give all the functionality of the search messages dialog. 
Therefore, it would be nice if I could use the search messages dialog to do my
searches.  I don't know about the NNTP capability comment, as Netscape 4.74's
search messages dialog worked flawlessly on this exact same forum, which is
forums.sybase.com -> sybase.public.sqlanywhere.general.  If you go to this
forum, you will realize why I need the search capability so badly.  Please
Please fix this!

Comment 3

[WD]

Greg, enable NNTP logging and post your results for a search:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/tests/sea-mn-newsgroup-function.html#NNTP%20Log%20File%20Setup

Comment 4

[Greg Goodrich]

Attachment: Log of attempted NNTP search on subject contains "migrate"

This is the log when doing a tools->search messages with specifier of subject
contains "migrate".  This log also contains the initial connection to the
newsgroup, and checking for new messages in the newsgroup at the top.  The
search portion is at the bottom.  I've left the log intact so that I didn't
inadvertently discard useful information.

Comment 5

[Greg Goodrich]

Regarding the prior attachment, it appears that the nntp server finds 221
messages that match the search, but they do not get pulled in by mozilla. 
Granted, I'm not versed at nntp logs, so maybe I am way off on this.

Comment 6

[WD]

The "221" is actually an NNTP response code.  (meaning success)
The problem is, the NNTP server is returning nothing to Mozilla after it issues
the XPAT command.

So technically, the problem is on the server end, which would make this INVALID.
But I'm actually, going to mark this as a dupe of bug 92746
That bug covers having the search command use the headers that were already
downloaded.  (Since some NNTP servers do not support searching)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92746 ***