324678 - Search messages doesn't find all messages it should if 3 or more "or" terms are given

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tuukka Ylä-Anttila]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051010 Firefox/1.0.7 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird nightly trunk 1.6a1 (20060125)

If you enter more than 2 search terms ("match any of the following"), Search Messages will only find messages matching the last of the search terms.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit -> Find -> Search messages...
2. Make sure "Match any of the following" is selected and enter three terms such as "Subject contains foo", "Subject contains bar" and "Subject contains baz", with "foo", "bar" and "baz" being actual words that appear in different messages' subjects
3. Hit "Search"
Actual Results:  
Only the messages with "baz" in the subject are found, not the ones with "foo" or "bar"

Expected Results:  
Messages with "foo", "bar" or "baz" in the subject should have been found

Reproducible on a Ubuntu Linux system with Ubuntu standard version 1.0.7, Mozilla official tarball version 1.5 and latest nightly 1.6a (20060125). I have heard of the same thing happening on Windows systems. Everything works alright if you enter only one or two search terms but with three, only messages matching the last one are displayed.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Worksforme, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060127 Thunderbird/1.5 ID:2006012705

Comment 2

[Tuukka Ylä-Anttila]

I've tested on four different machines now. The latest was Thunderbird 1.0.7 on Windows XP, so I'm presuming that this is present on all OS's.

Strange. I just tested this on a different account and IMAP server: no bug, the search works as it should. The complaints I mentioned from Windows users about this bug are all users of this particular IMAP server. So it seems to be related to our server. I tested the same kind of search on our server with Evolution, it works just fine. But not with Thunderbird. The server is dbmail on debian. Seems like more people should test this on their Thunderbirds on different servers? Tests appreciated, as well as any clues as to what's causing this...

Leaving as UNCONFIRMED

Comment 3

[Tuukka Ylä-Anttila]

This is a dbmail problem, the whole search setup in dbmail was apparently rewritten for the unstable branch of dbmail, so this problem will most probably fix itself in the future...