Closed Bug 256545 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Add search for recipient into the quick search bar

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(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

enhancement
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normal

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(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED
Thunderbird1.1

People

(Reporter: mark, Assigned: mscott)

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(1 file, 1 obsolete file)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.7+ (20040822)

It would be nice to have search for recipient in the quick search bar. I see a couple of use models where 
this would be useful:

1. With the global Inbox, you can quickly search for messages delivered to a given account.
2. For accounts that are a "default" account for a domain. For instance, my ISP delivers all mail not to a 
known mailbox into a default account. Being able to quickly search it for recipient patterns is very 
useful.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Comment on attachment 156752 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch that implements recipient search in the quick search bar.

Normally, Mark, you should set the review request for your own patch -- but I
really want to see this feature, so I'm making the request for you.  :)
Attachment #156752 - Flags: review?(mscott)
is this a dup of bug 259914?
Bug 259914 started out as a different issue by stating there may be confusion
when search by Sender in the Sent folder would search by Recipient. That bug has
now morphed into somewhat of a dup of this bug.

As I commented in this bug, there are use cases where search by Recipient is
useful outside of the Sent folder. That is what my patch adds. The comments in
bug 259914 are about a variety of other searches which need more thought to the
use models for those searches. For instance, I'm not sure that a search for
"Subject, Sender, or Recipient" would be of much use if I'm searching for a
Sender named "Mark" and I then get all of my inbound mail because "Mark" is the
Recipient.
Attachment #156752 - Attachment is obsolete: true
*** Bug 284639 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It might also be more intuitive if the syntax in the quick search read "To or
CC" (rather than "recipients" as it does when creating filters.

Another case where this would be useful would be for searching through email
from a great many mailing lists that send to a specific recipient address for
distribution.
*** Bug 293378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Attachment #156752 - Flags: review?(mscott)
Comment on attachment 167645 [details] [diff] [review]
Updated patch for locale changes

I think I like:

To Or Cc
Attachment #167645 - Flags: superreview+
I checked this in using "To or Cc" as the text.

Thanks for the patch. 
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird1.1
I can verify this is fixed for TB.  It looks like the patch is to Core (but I'm 
not sure about that); I can't test the suite until bug 297725 is fixed.

Thanks, Mark and Scott.
Verified fixed as of snapshot 20050621, on win32.
(In reply to comment #11)
> It looks like the patch is to Core (but I'm 
> not sure about that); I can't test the suite until bug 297725 is fixed.

Me so dumb.  The suite doesn't have the field-selecter.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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