272522 - Additional search functionality for newsgroups

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[William M. Quarles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

I thought that it was cool that I could download all of the articles for offline
viewing from a newsgroup.  However, I was surprised that I still could only
search for sender and subject.  If I have downloaded all of th articles, I
should be able to search in every possible field, just like with mail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a newsgroup to expose a context menu
2. Left-click on "Properties..."
3. Left-click on the "Offline" tab
4. Left-click to check the box for "Select this newsgroup for offline use."
5. Left-click on the "Download Now" button, then left-click on "OK."
6. Wait for the messages to be downloaded, taking note of the progress being
shown in the status bar at the bottom of the Mail and News window.
7. When all messages have been downloaded, left-click on "Tools->Search
Messages..." in the menu bar.
8. Try to pick a field in which to search.
Actual Results:  
I could only search for subject and/or sender.

Expected Results:  
I think that I should have been allowed to search other fields as well.

Comment 1

[William M. Quarles]

As an addition to this request, I would like to see filtering done any header,
not just the boring three, and the ability to add headers to be filtered would
also be good.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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