270232 - Unable to create a saved search on IMAP for a search on the "body" field

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Search, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

STR (using an IMAP account)

1. Go to File | New | Saved Search
2. Create a Saved Search where "Body" "Contains" and then select a word that you
know shows up in the body of an email 
3. Check the Search Online box
4. Click ok to create the saved search as a folder

When I open the newly saved folder, there are no messages in it despite the fact
I tried two or three times with different words that I know were in the message
body.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I can reproduce this on windows XP. The search works, if I just use the simple
search feature. When I save it as a folder, it fails. 

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Interestingly enough, if I perform this as a quicksearch and search the message
body and save a virtual folder, it works.  Takes a long time, but the messages
eventually show up in the folder.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

taking - this definitely doesn't work, which is odd. My guess would be that it's
trying to search the offline store.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

won't make the 1.0 train, probably should relnote. Workaround is to use quicksearch.

Comment 5

[Kurt Jaeke]

Had the same problem yesterday. TB seems to forget in which folders to search. Open the virtual folder 
options, there, open the "Search these folders" window (or so, I amusing the German localization, no 
guarantee for correct English re-translation), and select your inbox.

Comment 6

[Dmitry Noviy]

Thunderbird 1.0.7, Fedora Core 4.
I have mailbox over IMAP, press Shift+F to find any message using e.g. symbol 'a' in 'Body' - it search fine, a lot of messages are found. Click to save it to virtual folder, go to just created folder - there are no messages.

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

have you tried 1.5beta2 builds? Is your saved search configured to run locally or on the server? If the former, have you downloaded the message bodies for offline use? Otherwise, we can't do a body search.

Comment 8

[Dmitry Noviy]

Thunderbird 1.5beta - all works.
I think the issue is fixed

Comment 9

[Joe McCabe]

20060126 (1.6a1)

Saved Search does not produce any results when searching IMAP folders with complex search:

Folders: Inbox, Qwe
"Online Search"
Match any of:
  Label is Foo
  Subject contains Foo
  Subject contains Bar
  Subject contains Baz

Openening the saved search folder produces no search results. Blank message list pane. Disabling "Online search," manually opening the folders, then opening the Saved Search folder then produces the expected list of messages. Alternatively, removing one of the selected search folders (doesn't matter which) such that only one filder is being searched also produces the expected results.

The behavior looks like it's not even querying the IMAP server.

Comment 10

[Ken Seehart]

Attachment: Webkit search - This yields false positive matches (messages without any occurence of "webkit")

Comment 11

[Ken Seehart]

Attachment: Webkit search - Several of these messages so not contain the string "webkit")

Comment 12

[Ken Seehart]

Not sure if this comment should be a new bug.  I am getting false positive matches in a saved search.  The search works correctly in the quick search.

This is a very straightforward search.  Just a ordinary string search.  The search string was "webkit" in the Body.  Several of the matches do not contain "webkit" anywhere in the message.

Searching for "webkit" in the Subject gives accurate results.

Hard to give you instructions to reproduce this, but I have subscribed to the wxPython list, and my search is on that list.

See attachments

Comment 13

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

I'm not sure if this is the same class of problem, but I found this issue:

1) Send yourself an email
  subject: this is a test
  body: nothing to see here

Wait for the email to arrive.

2) File | New | Saved Search
  Body Contains: nothing to see here

Note that your email matches.

3) Modify the saved search as follows:
  Body Contains: nothing
  Body Contains: to
  Body Contains: see
  Body Contains: here

Note that the email you sent yourself does not match.

4) While in the saved search folder, enter "this is a test" in the quick filter box.

Note that the email now matches.

Comment 14

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to Marcia Knous [:marcia] from comment #0)
> STR (using an IMAP account)
> 1. Go to File | New | Saved Search
> 2. Create a Saved Search where "Body" "Contains" and then select a word that
> you
> know shows up in the body of an email 
> 3. Check the Search Online box
> 4. Click ok to create the saved search as a folder

Saved Search folder with condition of "body" was normally created. Bug summary is slightly misleading...

> When I open the newly saved folder, there are no messages in it despite
> the fact I tried two or three times with different words that I know were
> in the message body.

At least after Tb 3, phenomenon in Body Search of Saved Search folder(Virtual Folder) on IMAP folders was already changed to phenomenon of bug 721167.
(A) If "body" is conained in condition, searchOnline=false is ignored if search
    target is IMAP folder, and Online Search is always executed for IMAP folder
    by Search Folder(Virtual Folder).
(B) Because Online Search is executed using IMAP SEARCH command,
    search result depends on server's SEARCH support/implementation.
    (B-1) SEARCH BODY of Gmail IMAP searches message header too,
          so phenomenon reported to bug 721167 comment #0 occurs.
    (B-2) SEARCH BODY of Gmail is perhaps word basis.
          comment #13 on Saved search is perhaps this phenomenon.
In Edit/Find/Search Messages(or Folder context menue/Search), option of "Search Onlie" or not works as expected. So, above (B) is applicable if Online Search is used.
In Quick Search(Search box in Quick Filter Bar), Body Serch is always Local Search, enven when IMAP offline-use=Off folder. comment #13 on Quick Search is perhaps this phenomenon.

Which was original problem of this bug?
(i)  Online Search was not executed even though "Check the Search Online box".
     (SEARCH command was not issued by Tb. Local Search is executed.)
(ii) Online Search was executed(SEARCH BODY, SEARCH HEADER SUBJECT etc. was
     issued by Tb), but nothing was returned from server, or Tb failed to detect
     returned UID.
According to comment #3, it sounds that this bug was (i), Local Search was always executed in the past.

To bug opener and all problem reportrs to this bug:
Do you still see original problem of this bug in recent Tb releases or latest trunk daily builds?

Comment 15

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Removing relnote keyword from bugs that are no longer significant or not needing to be mentioned in the release notes.