287777 - saved searches using the label is criteria fail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I've saved a search on an IMAP server for "label is foopy" where foopy is a
custom label I've applied to a number of emails in my inbox. The saved search
folder displays as empty even though there are emails that match that criteria. 

I've tested on today's trunk build using windows XP. I've tested with the
default labels and custom labels and I've tested search online and not. This
fails in all tests.

Comment 1

[Martijn Reuvers]

Hi,

I have the same problem, only I didn't alter the labels at all. I created a 
saved search on a label (e.g. Label is Todo) and highlighted Search Online. For 
weeks it worked fine, but suddenly the Saved Search folder doesn't want to 
search anymore, it just doesn't do anything. Removing it and creating a new one 
didn't help at all. This bug is present in version 1.0 as well as 1.0.2

Martijn Reuvers
Two Tribes B.V.

Comment 2

[Kramer]

It appears that, at some point, searching by label in IMAP folders was removed
from Thunderbird for some strange reason.

Another user complained in the forums, here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=234661

The user in the above post lists the extensions that he has installed, thinking
that they might be the source of his problem, but this is unlikely to be a cause
because I have one extension installed and it is different from the ones he has.
 I have this problem as well, it shows up in Portable Thunderbird 1.0.

Why was the "label" search critera removed?  We want it back!

Comment 3

[Kramer]

Attachment: A screenshot of the only search criteria allowed.

Comment 4

[Jim Meyer]

Please see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217034#c11 for a
possible workaround to this problem.

--j

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 192582 ***

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sorry, this isn't actually a dupe.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I've tested this a little more with TB 1.0+0803, Win2K.  It seems to be working 
pretty consistently.  I was seeing some balkiness when returning the Inbox with 
a label-based MailView, but that was always rectified by selecting All and then 
reselecting the MailView.

Asa, are you still seeing this bug?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM (tags) version 3.0a1pre (2007110302) and per comment 7 => WFM

Perhaps Asa can verify.