269431 - saved search folders: searching 2 imap folders returns nothing

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Nik the Greek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041105 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041105 Firefox/1.0

When creating a saved search folder for an IMAP account, if the search is on
more than 1 folder (e.g. The 'Inbox' and one of its subfolders, like 'Junk') the
search returns no results (i.e. the saved search folder is empty) regardless of
search criteria.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure an IMAP account that has some subfolder under 'Inbox'
2. create a saved search folder that searches the inbox and one of its subfodlers
3.




I'm using an IMAP account from runbox.com;
my spam controls are configured to mark messages as spam, but not move them
anywhere (the contents of the Junk subfolder is just old spam that I keep around).

This feature could save me the trouble of creating rules and redirecting
incoming messages to different IMAP folders (the latency..) and I'm really glad
that it's been added. However, being able to search more than one folder is
crucial to me.

Comment 1

[Dorneles Treméa]

The same happens when searching between two or more news groups.
Using Thunderbird 1.0 on Linux.

Comment 2

[Ari Vidar Johannesson]

I experience the opposite, in that my IMAP folder search only works when 2 or
more folders are part of the search. I do not have sub-folders under my IMAP
Inbox folder. When I created a search folder with criteria that surely matched a
few messages in the Inbox folder but the search folder stayed empty. It was not
until I added another folder to the search (Drafts) that the messages in the
Inbox folder showed up in the Search Folder. It does not matter which extra
folder I add along with the Inbox folder and no messages in the added folder
have to match the criteria. In short: The only way for the search folder to work
was to have more than one folder as part of the search.

I am using version 1.0.2-1.3.2 (20050324)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 5

[Dorneles Treméa]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
> comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

please reopen.

I can confirm that the bug is still unresolved in Thunderbird 1.0.7, both
searching in 2 or more folders in the same IMAP account and searching in 2 or
more groups in a NEWS account.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

this works fine for me. But in any case, we were asking if it works in 1.5beta
1, not 1.07. 1.5 beta 1 contains a lot of bug fixes from 1.0. 1.07 only contains
security fixes from 1.0

Comment 7

[Dorneles Treméa]

Ah... just as a comment, accidentaly I discovered that in fact this feature kind
of works (still speaking of 1.0.x series)... :-)

I've a 'saved search' looking for messages marked as 'important' in all groups
from a newsgroup account. When I click in this saved search, nothing is shown in
the right panel (messages list), but if I changed to see 'unread messages' and
then back to 'all messages' the my important messages from all groups are
correctly show... ;-)

If I click in a different folder and back to this saved search, then I have to
repeat the above procedure to be able to see the messages.

I hope this can help debug this issue. In a few days I'll test the 1.5 series.

Thanks for now.