274753 - View (Filter) only searches first line of a multi-line header

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124641

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott Villinski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 - Thunderbird: version 1.0 (20041206)

If you create a View for all messages where "CC" contains [e-mail], if
the header has multiple lines, and "[e-mail]" is not on the first line,
the View will not list the message.  Here's a sample header that the View fails
to find.

Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail],
	[e-mail]

It looks like the View function only searches the first line of the headers


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Find a message that has lots of CC (or To - I assume it applies to all headers)
2.  View the source of the message, and select an adress that is *not* on the
same line as the: "CC:" tag.
3.  Create a View using this address and the CC header.

Actual Results:  
The view is created successfuly, but when you use that view to display only
messages matching that filter, the message I expect to see listed - is not listed.

Expected Results:  
The message with an address on the 2nd line of the CC header should have been in
the filtered view.

Personally, I think a Major feature is broken - since I use views as a means for
creating virtual folders, and moving messages around.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

the view code uses the same search as the basic search code - if you do an
advanced search, does it find the right messages?

Comment 2

[Scott Villinski]

Attachment: Screenshot of Seach Criteria

I did perform a search on the messages (see attachment) and had the same
result.  I'm assuming that what I performed was an advanced search.

Comment 3

[Philippe Landau]

the same happens with filters:
for example the received headers often contain more then one line, 
and only what is on the first line gets caught by filters.

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUP of Bug 274753?
If DUP of Bug 274753, I recommend you to add a comment to the bug about "To or
cc" case, since the bug does not refer to multi-line "To:" header nor multi-line
"CC:" header.

Comment 5

[Sidney Markowitz]

This doesn't seem to have anything to do with To or Cc headers specifically, or
just with View (Filter).

I'm seeing the same thing with Edit | Find | Search Messages when I search for a
header contains string and the string is in the wrapped second line of the header.

I've tried it with a number of custom headers and the result is consistent: If
the string I'm searching for is in the second line of the header, it is not
found, while the search does find those messages with the search string in the
first line of the header.

I am using Thunderbird 1.0 in Windows XP Pro

Comment 6

[Randy W. Sims]

(In reply to comment #3)
> the same happens with filters:
> for example the received headers often contain more then one line, 
> and only what is on the first line gets caught by filters.

Is there a specific bug for that? I was going to report it, and this is the
closest thing I've found so far. A recent example: I was trying to create a
filter based on 'List-Id', but some mailing lists have a format like

List-Id: Discussions relating to ActivePerl on Win32 platforms
	<perl-win32-users.listserv.ActiveState.com>

with an embedded new-line. Very annoying bug.

Comment 7

[Felipe Contreras]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > the same happens with filters:
> > for example the received headers often contain more then one line, 
> > and only what is on the first line gets caught by filters.
> 
> Is there a specific bug for that? I was going to report it, and this is the
> closest thing I've found so far. A recent example: I was trying to create a
> filter based on 'List-Id', but some mailing lists have a format like
> 
> List-Id: Discussions relating to ActivePerl on Win32 platforms
> 	<perl-win32-users.listserv.ActiveState.com>
> 
> with an embedded new-line. Very annoying bug.

I confirm the bug in win32, it's very annoying, how am I supposed to filter my
mailing lists?

Why is it left as UNCONFIRMED? I think this should have a higher priority.

Comment 8

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124641 ***