299109 - Behaviour of Quick Search Bar on "Sender" or "Subject Or Sender" setting - when sent mails are saved to INBOX

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[sammo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Normally, the behaviour of quick search bar in the Sent folder is that it
searches for "recipient" instead of "sender" - this makes sense because the
sender will always be [e-mail].

I've been experimenting with saving sent messages to INBOX, so message threads
are kept in the same folder instead of in the Sent folder. 

Quick search bar will show messages from "Sender", but not messages from me to
"Sender". It would be nice to also show messages from me to "Sender"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Menu-Tools/Accounts/Copies&Folders/Place a copy in INBOX
2. Send email to [e-mail]
3. Wait for email from [e-mail]
4. Both the emails will be in INBOX
5. Quick search bar, enter "[e-mail]"
Actual Results:  
Only the message from [e-mail] will be shown.

The message from myemail.adr to [e-mail] will not be shown.

Expected Results:  
Also show the message from myemail.adr to [e-mail]

searchBar.js can be modified to add the expected behaviour.

Comment 1

[sammo]

Attachment: Added one block of code. Rest of code unaffected.

Comment 2

[sammo]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=187629) [edit]
> Added one block of code. Rest of code unaffected.

Notice that the patch will first match the list of recipients, then it will do
an AND match of [e-mail] ... this is necessary in case you have emails
addressed to [e-mail] that are not sent to you (such as from
bulk emailers, etc) ..

Comment 3

[sammo]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=187629) [edit]
> Added one block of code. Rest of code unaffected.

Notice that [e-mail] is hard coded. I don't know how to retrieve the
user's email address(es) from thunderbird!

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 259914 comment 11?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Your description doesn't read well to me so I'm not totally sure I undrestand the request. 

Is your request to limit it to using it in INBOX?
Does Bug 310359 describe what you are asking for? (if it were available in quicksearch)

Comment 6

[Glenn Brown]

I'm seeing the same thing with the current official release: (version 2.0.0.12 (20080213))

Specifically: If I arrange to save sent messages in FOLDER, which also holds received messages, then doing a quick search for "Sender" or "Subject or Sender" matching "[e-mail]" then the result of the search lists messages with *Recipient* matching "[e-mail]" when it should list messages with *Sender* matching "[e-mail]."  The problem persists even after I redirect sent messages to a different folder.  The folder is tainted with permanently broken quick-search-by-sender.

IMHO, having "Sender" ever search the "Recipient" column is a mis-feature.  Instead, there should be a separate quick search entry to search by "Recipient," and then everything would work in an obvious way.

Comment 7

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

(In reply to comment #6)
> IMHO, having "Sender" ever search the "Recipient" column is a mis-feature. 
> Instead, there should be a separate quick search entry to search by
> "Recipient," and then everything would work in an obvious way.

That is what is now implemented in Thunderbird3, as visible in 3.0b1.

Comment 8

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter could answer to comment #5, please?

Comment 9

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Closing Incomplete for lack of answers. 

Feel free to reopen if you can provide more information.