286059 - search folder: new folders are not included on the saved search - there should be an option to enable that

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 378833

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[nanet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ca-AD; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ca-AD; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

Let's suppouse we have the following folder tree:

- a
-- a.1
-- a.2

We have a saved search folder that looks for mails in the 3 folders (a, a.1, a.2).
If we add a new folder: could be a.3, a.1.i, etc...

Saved search won't include the new one, so you have to edit the search folder
and manually add all new folders created.

A recursive option could be added in the saved search folder dialog.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a saved search folder containing a folder tree
2. Add a new folder inside this tree with some mails
3. Run the saved search

Actual Results:  
The new folder isn't searched. So you have to manually add it to the search folder .

Expected Results:  
1. It could detect that it is a child and ask to include it.

or

2. In the create search folder dialog it could have been an option to do it
recursively.

Comment 1

[Boki]

I'd like to confirm this bug, which is really annoying if you have a lot of
search-folders. 

How about the following:

When creating a new folder you get inside the window where one enters a name
etc. a list of all current search folders with check-boxes beside each of them
to include the new folder easily to the existing search folders. I would suggest
that by default all search folders are selected.

Boki

Comment 2

[nanet]

I would rather prefer to have the option of recursively select the folders, this
way, you know that any new folder inserted is ALWAYS used in your search.

Comment 3

[Boki]

so you suggest that if the parent folder is searched any new subfolder by
default should be searched too. I think  this is a very good idea. In fact this
was how i expected thunderbird to handel it but i had to learn it was different. 

So maybe this will be sufficient. Anyway i still like the idea of showing a list
of existing search folders on creation of a new folder. In this list the default
selection could depend on whether the parent folder is searched or not.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Boki]

Bug is still present in latest debian-testing version and i think it should be
taken care of somehow.

Comment 6

[Alexandre Leroux]

In addition, there should be a way to specify "select all folders" (exception made of other saved search folders) instead of having to manually select every folder in your folder list. This "Select all folders" must include newly created folders automatically.

The OS tag of this bug should be modified to "all" instead of "WinXP". The version should also be updated.