1907752 - [META] body search bugs (filters + Quick Filter + search messages)

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Search, defect)

Description

[chrizilla]

purpose

This Metabug intends to

• give an overview of key "body search bugs", so that bugfixes can take into account closely connected/interdependent bugs
• help facilitate deduplication of existing and new incoming bugs

bug list

bug #	add raw body field
bug 1906516	Filters + Quick Filters + Search Messages: add raw body field to search the entire body (including HTML/CSS code)
bug 453385	Implement message filter to search raw message source (incl. matching "raw body" like html tags)

bug #	exclude/include HTML/CSS code in body search:
bug 589458	Add a custom preference to disable HTML tag stripping in body search
bug 628098	Filters+Quick Filter+Search Messages: searching body searches code (string in HTML <style> is searched by Body contains)
bug 999038	email Body quick filter locates search word in fragments of HTML/CSS coding
bug 1211128	Apply filter to URLs in message body

bug #	search entire message
bug 229142	Allow search of complete message (ALL headers, as well as body)
bug 271222	Implement "Entire message filter" quick search feature (can't filter for whole msg fulltext, need missing quicksearch option)
bug 1906990	Quick Filter: option to search "entire message" has disappeared

bug #	base64
bug 37031	searching message body yields false positives because base64 encoded binary attachments are treated as plaintext
bug132340	Local body search does not work if the body is encoded as Base64
bug1259534	For certain MIME structures […] search for a string in message body fails to find message if message parts are base64 encoded (searches the undecoded content and also related images)

bug #	quoted-printable
bug268459	Search / filters for Message Body broken for quoted-printable bodies
bug667854	Mails with a body containing quoted-printable-like strings (= followed by 2 hexadecimal digits) not matched (false negatives/positives) in some local body searches
bug1101474	QuickFilter on body text fails when searched string is preceded by =

bug #	other
bug 338761	searching body of emails for text doesn't match word-wrapped text
bug 379988	search body should not match words in MIME headers
bug 381258	Quick Search: "Message Body filter" fails for Newsgroups. Body search should be disabled if not offline.
bug 1253857	Quick search on body finds anything in the attached message (multipart, relative part comes before alternative)
bug 1251926	Message filters with invalid HTML body not working
bug 1562737	Allow body search in encrypted messages ("regular search", QFB, filters)

bug #	IMAP: missing body field
bug 1834332	IMAP: mention in search messages > body, the download prerequisite in Account Settings > Message Synchronization & Storage to "Keep messages in all folders for this account on this computer"
bug 67421	Missing possibility to filter on text in body for IMAP when offline storage not enabled
bug 543416	advanced search messages option to search in message body is not available for local search (run search on server w/o IMAP synchronization not obvious, won't stick)
bug780768	Advanced Searching by Body not available/offered after renaming IMAP folder
bug1818065	IMAP: Search messages cannot search body, because body field is missing
bug1892757	IMAP: search in message body (versus message headers) has disappeared and is therefore not accessible anymore

bug #	other IMAP-related bugs
bug 67421	Missing possibility to filter on text in body for IMAP when offline storage not enabled
bug660555	IMAP: allow quick search to use server-side queries for headers as well as body
bug721167	Body search of Gmail IMAP includes headers / If condition contains "body", Tb always executes Online Search for IMAP folders regardless of "Search Online" option of Search Folder
bug775024	IMAP: quick search and filters based on message body give wrong results (false negatives) for base64-encoded messages
bug853393	Searching messages is STILL NOT working (IMAP online search. IMAP server returns nothing to 'uid SEARCH UNDELETED BODY "ftp"' when mail is multipart or when text part under multipart is base64 encoded)
bug1245532	Quick filter by body doesn't find message if message stored in IMAP folder
bug404255	Consider using UTF-8 when searching inside message body (IMAP online search) to avoid search failure
bug1777443	Quick "Filter these messages" by body on IMAP fails to find matching messages w/o "run search on server" or "Repair folder"
bug1792726	IMAP: Quick filter body search returns results for longer search word 1234, but nothing for shorter 123 or 234

Comment 1

[Francesco]

Wayne, do you think that all the bugs mentioned in comment #0 should be added as "depends on". Otherwise no one will find this metabug which contains a useful collection of related bugs.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Francesco from comment #1)

Wayne, do you think that all the bugs mentioned in comment #0 should be added as "depends on". Otherwise no one will find this metabug which contains a useful collection of related bugs.

Someone is welcome to mark those dependencies. I think further triage and consolidation of those bugs reports will be useful before doing that - not much point marking dependencies of bugs that can just be closed duplicate or something else.