Closed Bug 277336 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

"Entire message" search in Thunderbird doesn't work for emails

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 67421

People

(Reporter: figelwump, Assigned: mscott)

Details

When using "Entire Message" option in search pulldown, Thunderbird returns all
messages.  Given search terms are ignored.  Searching by "subject" or "sender"
is fine.
It does not work for me on an NNTP server. It works fine on an IMAP server or in
local folders.
NNTP doesn't support body search, so there's not much we can do (other than
disabling that option for newsgroups) or searching the offline store, if you
have the newsgroup configured for offline use.
Hmmmmm. Pine seems to do it. Is it just downloading every message and searching
locally? It takes long enough that that is what I have always suspected.
that's another option, but what happens if you have a 10,000 message newsgroup?
There was an NNTP extension that allowed search of message bodies, but afaik,
the Netscape news server was the only one that implemented it, so it never went
anywhere.
Summary: "Entire message" search in Thunderbird is broken → "Entire message" search in Thunderbird doesn't work for news
Well, a quick test indicates that Pine seems to deal with a text search in a
2600-message newsgroup off a server on the LAN fine. It did take about 30
seconds for the search though.

I understand the reasons why this feature is not implemented, but it is in other
newsreaders and I feel that it would be useful here as well. The presence of a
non-working "Entire Message" option is a bug, even if you don't want to
implement the functionality.
Actually it does not work for me when searching messages on an IMAP server,
which was what the bug was originally about.  Any ideas regarding that issue?

Thanks
It WORKSFORME on IMAP. Perhaps your server does not support search? Try using
some other IMAP client that supports search on the same server and see if it works.
It works when using Microsoft Outlook Express as my imap client...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83971 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I think I have unintentionally hijacked this bug which has now resulted in it
being declared a duplicate. The original reporter didn't say it was an IMAP
problem originally but eventually clarified in comment #6.

OTOH, regarding the complaint of the original reporter, it WORKSFORME.
Reopening as the problem I am facing is not a duplicate of bug 83971.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Summary: "Entire message" search in Thunderbird doesn't work for news → "Entire message" search in Thunderbird doesn't work for emails
removing CC
Duping to the correct bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67421 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Not sure how much 67421 is a duplicate of this bug.  It looks like 67421 is
about filters, whereas this bug is about search.  I don't know about how
thunderbird is implemented, maybe the root cause of both problems is the same. 
Just want to be clear about the difference...
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