233364 - Quicksearch for blank (empty) Subject fields

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Jon Roland]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

There does not seem to be a good way to search or filter on messages with blank
or empty Subject fields. This would be useful for filtering out spam and
virus-infected messages, many of which have blank Subject lines.

For completeness, there should also be an option to search/filter on nonblank
Subject fields.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Joe Infla]

"Subject" "is" <leave blank>
"Subject" "isn't" <leave blank>

Comment 2

[Jon Roland]

I should have been more clear. I meant when using the View: and Subject or
Sender contains: fields above the header listing.

Comment 3

[Joe Infla]

The cooment 1 solution applies the same to Mailviews.  Altering summary to
specify the Quicksearch feature, aka "Subject or Sender contains."  I don't see
a good way to do this, though.  The best I can think of is to treat a space as
requesting "blank," but that's not expected behavior.

Comment 4

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Comment 5

[Jon Roland]

This is a continuing problem and should be kept active. Test might be "subject
is """, that is, a double quote with nothing between, to indicate null.