235908 - Add an option to search full message source

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229142

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Justin Bauer]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When I filter mail I would like to have the option of the filter searching
through the full message source.  This option does not seem currently available.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try filtering by something not fitting the current options
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Martin Marinschek]

Please give me that option - that would be a major advantage in comparison with
Outlook, where the search is unnecessarily complicated....

If I click on "Search messages", the first option should not be "Subject", but
"Entire message" and I have my one-click search finally there where it needs to be!

Comment 2

[Thomas Boerkel]

I think, I found it: It does not work, if "View/Threads/Unread" for that folder
is set and the searched messages are already read. In this case, it displays the
messages in the search result, but there are blank when double-clicking on them.
If the found messages are unread, then it works. It works for all messages, if I
set "View/Threads/All" on that folder.

I also just found out, that searching in the body does not work for a searched
folder (IMAP online searched is checked). But that may be an already known bug.

Comment 3

[Thomas Boerkel]

Sorry, please discard my comment. Bugzilla tricked me.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

quicksearch and advanced search have options of "entire message" and body in
current nightly builds

confirming, as I've had occasion to want such a feature (feasible is a different
matter)


(In reply to comment #1)
> Please give me that option - that would be a major advantage in comparison with
> Outlook, where the search is unnecessarily complicated....
> 
> If I click on "Search messages", the first option should not be "Subject", but
> "Entire message" and I have my one-click search finally there where it needs
to be!

not gonna happen?  that would be a horrible performance hit

Comment 6

[Martin Marinschek]

Ok, if that being the default option is not desired - maybe it would be possible to be able to store it as default option for a user if he desires?

I don't really care about how long it takes to search a message in my folder (I do a good pre-filter and there are not too many in a folder), I do care if I find all messages relevant to a topic or name though.

regards,

Martin

(In reply to comment #5)
> quicksearch and advanced search have options of "entire message" and body in
> current nightly builds
> 
> confirming, as I've had occasion to want such a feature (feasible is a different
> matter)
> 
> 
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Please give me that option - that would be a major advantage in comparison with
> > Outlook, where the search is unnecessarily complicated....
> > 
> > If I click on "Search messages", the first option should not be "Subject", but
> > "Entire message" and I have my one-click search finally there where it needs
> to be!
> 
> not gonna happen?  that would be a horrible performance hit
> 
> 
> 

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Ok, if that being the default option is not desired - maybe it would be
> possible to be able to store it as default option for a user if he desires?

Well, quicksearch setting persists, so a preference default is not needed for it. (if for advanced search, write a new bug against TB preferences and make it depend on this bug - but I wouldn't be in favor of a preference)

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229142 ***