212656 - Filter HTML while searching for body text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213614

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Christopher Thomas Nicodemus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030712
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030712

There are several keywords I search for in my e-mail, that I know are junk.
Spammers have started putting HTML comments in the middle of words.
For example "Vi<!--fd76613fa2521-->ag<!--lt5rei3xz5-->ra".
When I search message bodies for "Viagra", the message is not found because of
the HTML comments.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. e-mail yourself an HTML message with
"Vi<!--fd76613fa2521-->ag<!--lt5rei3xz5-->ra" in it.
2. When you see the e-mail all you see is "Viagra", but view source and you see
"Vi<!--fd76613fa2521-->ag<!--lt5rei3xz5-->ra"
3. Search message bodies for "Viagra"

Actual Results:  
That message is not found due to the HTML comments.

Expected Results:  
Message should be found

Perhaps add a "Body excluding HTML" search choice.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duping to a later bug, only because that one has already been confirmed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213614 ***