307496 - cannot search entire message / body with thunderbird on kerio mailserver 6.1.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 24654

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Dennis Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.org

Hello. 

We have Problems with the search function of mozilla thunderbird v.1.0.x. This 
also doesn´t work with version 1.6a1.
We are using the kerio mailserver 6.1.0 as an imap server. 
When we want to search the body of all messages in a folder, we get "no matches 
found". 

I tried this "body search function" also with Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express 
on Kerio Mailserver 
and everything works fine. All messages where found which contains the searched 
text. 

I also asked the kerio support and they said that the kerio mailserver has 
implemented this 
"body search function". This seems to be a thunderbird problem. 

Could you please help me?! 

Thanks. 
Dennis Miller

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open an imap folder
2.search for messages in this folder
3.choose options "body" and "contains"
4.type-in the word you´re searching for (e.g. imap problems)
5.click to search
Actual Results:  
no messages where found!


Expected Results:  
show all messages which contains the text "imap problems". there are 2 messages 
in my folder which contains this text but thunderbird doesn´t find anything.

I also tried this search function with thunderbird on our old cyrus mailserver. 
and there i get the 2 messages in my results.

the search options "sender" and "subject" are working fine on both servers.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24654 ***

Comment 2

[Frank Epple]

This issue was marked as duplicate of #24654. I'm not sure if this is 
correct, as #24654 says "Make IMAP search smarter" and this says 
"IMAP body search does not work".

You can find additional informations and IMAP logs on that issue here:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1721900#1721900

Will this issue stay as P5 enhancement for the future?

The question is -> Is this a bug in the Kerio Mailserver as it does not 
understand the search commands from Thunderbird or is it a bug in Thunderbird as 
it should send a different search command.

We tried it with two mailservers and 3 different mail programs. Thunderbird/
Kerio combination is the only where bodysearch doest not work. All other 
combinations work (also with Kerio).

There seem to be different query strings for different mail servers. Is that 
right?

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

This just looks like an imap server that doesn't support body search and doesn't
return any results. Outlook and Outlook Express, afaik, don't actually issue
searches on the imap server; they do them locally.

Comment 4

[Frank Epple]

You're right. Outlook only searches mails that where read before and therefore 
downloaded from IMAP. We also checked the IMAP protocols and didn't find a 
problem here.

We will talk to Kerio again, you can set this issue to INVALID (I think I don't 
have the rights to do so).

One thing we found out while testing is, that Thunderbird issues a different 
SUBJECT-Search command than e.g. Mulberry. You can only find subjects of mails 
that where downloaded before (like in Outlook). The BODY-Search command is 
correct. Should I file another issue for that?

Thanks for your help.