292290 - Search Messsages does not work for newsgroup messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 147884

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Edward Yang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050415 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050415 Firefox/1.0.3

The Search Messages function does not quite work for newsgroup messages. I think
the percent of time/chances it works for newgroup messages is less than 10% (I
think I started using Thunderbird since its 0.1 release).

For example: I can do a search Subject contains 'string' for normal e-mail
messages and it lists expected e-mails with the 'string' in their subjects. But
it does work for newsgroup messages; it just returns nothing.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to a newgroup.
2. Download new messages from the newsgroup.
3. Now Search Messages and enter a string that you see in at least one subject.

Actual Results:  
No news items are listed.

Expected Results:  
At least one item would be listed.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM  TB version 1.0+ (20050603)

please try a newer version and provide much more detail, such as build version,
 newsgroup(s) tested, which ones are consistent, and which ones aren't.

Comment 2

[Dan Christensen]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM  TB version 1.0+ (20050603)
> 
> please try a newer version and provide much more detail, such as build version,
>  newsgroup(s) tested, which ones are consistent, and which ones aren't.

I am able to duplicate this with 20050622 build of Thunderbird 1.0+. I have set
up an account for "news.microsoft.com" and have subscribed to the newsgroup
"microsoft.public.win32.programmer.messaging". I right click on the newsgroup in
the folder tree and select "Search Messages". I leave all of the defaults in the
search dialog, enter "Undocumented" in the subject text field and then click the
search button. Thunderbird responds almost immediately with "No Matches Found"
in the status bar of the search dialog. Note that there is at least one message
posted on 6/21/2005 by myself (Dan Christensen) entitled "Undocumented flag in
IAttach::OpenProperty" that should have matched this search.

I am able to duplicate this with any text that I try to search. I have never
actually seen results come back. 

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

we do news searches on the news server - it's possible that search is broken on
the server. You can generate an NNTP protocol log to see what's happening with
the search by following these instructions, replacing "protocol" with NNTP

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of (Suite bug 210784 ->) Core bug 147884.