270231 - search criterion "STATUS is NEW" apparently doesn't work in a saved search folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253266

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Thorsten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

a saved search folder searching for messages whose "STATUS is NEW" shows matches
in the saved search folders name (bold type and the number of found matches in
brackets) after clicking the folder (to run the search), but displays no matches
- the window usually showing the mails is EMPTY. shortly afterwards, the saved
search fodler's folder name reverts to non-bold type and the number of matches
in brackets disappears, too, so the folder looks like all mail in it is read or
empty.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a saved search folder with criterion "STATUS is NEW"
2. mark the mail folders you want searched
3. save the saved search anywhere you like in the account's folder order
4. click on the saved search folder

Actual Results:  
saved search folder's name changed to bold plus displaying the number of matches
in brackets, but no mails are displayed. then the saved search folder's name
reverts to non-bold, no figures in brackets.

Expected Results:  
it should have displayed the (copies of) mails matching the criterion in the
saved search folder.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

A patch was just checked in yesterday for bug 243583 that is related to this -- 
altho that fix is apparently primarily for searching in IMAP folders.  Are your 
virtual folders searching in IMAP?  If so, try a nightly build and see if it 
addresses your problem.

Comment 2

[Thorsten]

(In reply to comment #1)
> A patch was just checked in yesterday for bug 243583 that is related to this -- 
> altho that fix is apparently primarily for searching in IMAP folders.  Are your 
> virtual folders searching in IMAP?  If so, try a nightly build and see if it 
> addresses your problem.
forgot to mention that i'm talking about POP3, not IMAP (it's my first submitted
bug). i already tried a nightly build before submitting the bug.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Ah -- then you're probably running up against the problem described in
bug 253266.
Instead of "Status is New", try creating the search with
  Status isn't Read  AND
  Status isn't Replied  AND
  Status isn't Forwarded

Unread =/= New

Comment 4

[Thorsten]

(In reply to comment #3)
that works. i do have a difference between actual new mail and matched mails of
1 or 2, but it's close enough for now,

so what does this mean for this bug here? is it an indirect dupe of the other
bug and should be attributed as such?

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253266 ***