320798 - Search filter searching message body when set to search subject or sender

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 279855

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Robert Rothenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.5 (20051025)

I have a folder where mail from a list is moved by a filter. Currently there are 72 messages in the folder.

When I use the search panel to select messages from the folder, nothing shows up for that search string, when clearly there are messages with that text in the subject.  I've even selected text from the subject of the message and pasted it into the search bar, but to no effect: it does not find the messages.

I've also double-checked: it is set to filter on Subject or Sender.  It works form some subjects, but not others.

What is interesting is that the specific string I am looking for, "Parrot"... if I type "par", the messages come up (along with several other messages which do not seem to have "par" in the subject or sender). When I type a fourth letter, e.g. "parr", then nothing shows up in the filter.

Turns out it was searching in the message body, not the subject.

I selected the option to search message body, then re-selected option to search message subject or sender. It seems to work now.

So it seems the search filter claims to be set to search subject or sender hwen it searches the message body.



Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1

[Terry Rosenbaum]

I have seen this bug also. Running version Thunderbird 1.5 (20051025)
on Win2K + SP4. Search type "Subject or Sender" was selected. Yet,
searches were not on Subject or Sender (I'm not sure what was really
being searched). Changed search type to something other than "Subject or
Sender" then back to "Subject or Sender" and that corrected the problem.

Comment 2

[bwporter]

I am also having this problem on Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (20060308) for Windows XP.  Will try to identify the scenario in which it occurs.

Comment 3

[bwporter]

I can reproduce the problem I was seeing and I believe it would account for the other scenarios in this bug.

The problem appears to be that the last selected search criteria is stored between two thunderbird sessions, however the selection drop down always shows "Subject and Sender" selected when Thunderbird is started.

1) Open Thunderbird. 
2) Select one folder.  Change the search criteria to "Entire Message".  Perform a search and see that it works.
3) Visit another folder.  Notice that the ghosted text says "Entire Message" in the search box.
4) Select the search drop down and notice that the bullet shows "Entire Message" is the current selection.
5) Close Thunderbird.
6) Open Thunderbird.
7)Select one folder.  Notice that the ghosted text says "Entire Message" in the search box.
8) Select the search drop down and notice that the bullet shows "Subject or Sender".

Comment 4

[bwporter]

I'm still seeing this in the latest Thunderbird (1.5.0.4).

Does anyone actually look at these bug reports?

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

I thought Scott already fixed something like this after 1.5 - have you tried a 2.0 or trunk nightly build? I tried it with my debug trunk build and it worked fine, if I've understood your steps in #4

Comment 6

[bwporter]

I have not tried a 2.0 or nightly build.  I will give that a shot and see what I find.  

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I believe this is a dupe of bug 279855, which is WFM on the trunk and the version 2 branch.

Comment 8

[bwporter]

I agree, the problem description in bug 279855 is the same as my problem description in this bug.  

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

OK, duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 279855 ***

Comment 10

[bwporter]

As promised in comment 6, I confirmed that in 2.0 beta 2 this problem appears to be fixed.