270910 - implement thread-status as a criterion of all searches/filters

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Tom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-3)

While search is customizable when it comes to headers, there are two properties
of messages that are useful but not consistently available in searches: flags
and thread/response status to a message (first-in-thread, last-in-thread,
no-response-received-to).  These message properties are important for mail
maintenance, and some mail clients support using them for sorting, filtering, etc.

Some of these features have been requested in individual feature requests.  I'm
filing this request to suggest making these properties available consistently
throughout Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Flag as criterion is bug 201433.

The thread-status idea is new, as far as I can tell.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reopening this bug was fine, but changing the component was not correct, I think.  There is substantial back-end work required to implement this feature.