270027 - Choose doesn't search the selected folder, if focus is in a different folder

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

found using 2004111505-0.9 on linux fc2.

1. I started with focus on my Inbox folder. this an IMAP account where all other
folders (non-virtual ones) are subfolders under Inbox. however, this bug also
occurred when I started in/searched through my RSS account.

2. select File > New > Saved Search Folder

3. enter a name for the search (eg, foo-42). it's optional select a location for
"Create as a subfolder of": I kept the virtual folder within the same account,
but this bug occurred whether I chose the toplevel account, the Inbox, or a
subfolder as the parent.

4. click the Choose button to bring up the Select Folder(s) dialog. as expected,
I'm limited to only folders in the given account chosen under step 1.

5. select a folder *different* from where focus was in step 1. eg, I had focus
on the Inbox, so instead I selected the "bug-scrubinfo" subfolder, then clicked
OK to return to the New Saved Search Folder dialog.

6. I created a criterion which I knew would yield results: eg, I used "Subject
contains 'keyboard'"

7. clicked OK.

expected results: a virtual folder called "foo-42" is created, containing
results based on steps 5 and 6. in my case I expected six messages to appear in
the virtual folder.

actual results: the virtual folder "foo-42" was created, but it was empty --as
if no messages were found.

this is strange, since this works if I had started step 1 in the same folder
chosen in step 5. if this is a real limitation, then we should then limit the
choices provided in the Select Folder(s) dialog.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

a really wacky variation on this: start with focus initially at the account
level in the folder pane. when I click on the resulting virtual folder, it
displays Account Central!

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> a really wacky variation on this: start with focus initially at the account
> level in the folder pane. when I click on the resulting virtual folder, it
> displays Account Central!

even though I didn't get output from the js console from comment 0, I do so with
this variation:

Error: gDBView has no properties
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/commandglue.js
Line: 888

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #2) 
> even though I didn't get output from the js console from comment 0

I lie, the same JS error occurs. sorry for the confusion.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

I just tried this out in the following scenarios:

* another tbird profile
* selecting multiple folders to search

and this still fails for me.

marcia doesn't see this problem on Mac. could someone check on Windows? I wonder
if this might be Linux-only...

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

also failed with a fresh, new tbird profile.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

okay, there might be piloting error here on my part. I've been using a 3rd party
theme which didn't display the checkmark (actual selection) in the Select Folder
dialog. and when I failed with a new profile I might have forgotten to actually
tick the checkmark then.

rechecking again.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

pffft. I was forgetting that checkmark. that's what I get for using a 3rd party
theme that lacks features *and* forgetting about the extra step to tick the
checkmark. my bad.