291171 - Search messages (and thusly search folders) should be able to search on the flag

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jack Eidsness]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.2 winxp

I think it would be nice if I could create a search folder based only on a flag;
 Currently, I can almost get this by sorting on the Flag column, but then I have
to scroll around to find out whether they are at the top or the bottom of the
list, and I can't sort again on any other columns.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click a folder
2. Click "Search messages"
3. Click the dropdown menu for field to search
4. see That "flag" isn't in it.

Actual Results:  
The dropdown list has only Subject, Body, and a bunch of message header fields,
and the option to search any other message headers;  Upon inspection, I have
been unable to find a header that indicates whether a message is flagged.

Upon inspection, I have inferred that "X-Status: F" means that a message has a
flag, but for some reason, searching on the custom header "X-Status" "is" or
"contains" "F" doesn't do it. 

Expected Results:  
I would like to be able to see "Flagged?" in the list of fields to search on. 
The  next two fields may need to be condensed into one, since it's a boolean value.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

in trunk builds (but perhaps not 1.0 builds), you can search on msg status is
flagged.

Comment 2

[Kyle Rose]

Is this enhancement (supposedly in trunk builds) going to make it back into the
mainline at any point?  This is my single remaining issue with Thunderbird
functionality.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

the trunk *is* the mainline. The next release off the mainline will be 1.5,
which is currently in its second beta.