227911 - Advanced search doesn't list "other" fields (like custom1)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184483

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, enhancement)

Description

[Jeroen Roodhart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031021
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031021

We would like to use the addressbook advanced search to create dynamic
mailinglists. For example we would like to work like:

preparation
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1) select a number of addresses in advanced search
2) right-click and select properties (common to all selected addresses)
3) Change the Other->Custom1 field to "Workshop 2003"

Now when we want to send email to the "workshop 2003" group:

1) Advanced search for Other->Custom1 == "Workshop 2003"
2) Select all matches
3) Compose new message
4) Copy selection into "To" field

However, for one we can't advanced search for "Other" fields.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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We are trying to migrate our administrative staff from outlook/eudora (****!) to
mozilla. They have large email-lists and run into these kind of problems. (Can't
copy selections into lists, duplicate email entries if the address is in a list,
well you probably know the drill ;) You do, I think I saw the bugzilla entries)

I think this feature would be greatly helpfull for us as a "selling point"

Anyway, thanx for a good product, now please make it great! ;)

Comment 1

[Patrick Installé]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184483 ***