37653 - Ability to retrieve arbitary msg from msg-store by msg-id

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Please excuse me, if this is already fixed, but 4.x could only find msg by
msg-id, if it knew the folder, where it lives. Of course, this dramatically
reduces the usefulness of this essential feature.

Not sure, if all IMAP servers support it, but we should
- use it, if it is supported by the server
- support it in local folders
- support it, even if the server doesn't support it directly, by seaching our
summary files

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

thanks for filing this, ben.

Comment 2

[selmer (gone)]

Target M17.

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Current summary is: Ability to retrieve arbitary msg from msg-store by msg-id

Comment 5

[Markus Hossner]

I programed a little xpi-addon for mozilla which helps to find the message to a
certain messageid.
It integrates a menu-item to the message pane context menu. So you just have to
right-click on the messageid and then choose the adequate newsserver in the
context menu.

Your could find the xpi-addon and some explainations at:
http://messageidfinder.mozdev.org/

Markus

PS: Waiting for feedback

Comment 6

[Ronald Killmer]

Markus, Did your patch of Bug #62033 address any of this bugs requirements.
This bug is showing as blocking Bug # 62033 in the dependency tree of Bug #62033.

Comment 7

[zug_treno]

Related to Thunderbird bug 264270?

Comment 8

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

gloda can be used to determine this for indexed mail folders (and news too, if we indexed that, which we don't.)  (note: I know BenB is well aware of this, just adding this note to the bug for people who stumble upon this bug)

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Andrew, yes, gloda is great and solves the majority of this bug. As you can see, I wished for something like it since 2000 :).

Re-reading the initial description, a few ideas:
For IMAP folders not indexed by gloda, is there a way to ask the IMAP server to retrieve an arbitrary message based on msg-id?
For NNTP, I think that exists: <nttp://server/msgid> works, IIRC.
There could be a function getMessageByMsgID(msgid), which first checks gloda, then IMAP and/or NNTP server (depending on current account).

Comment 10

[Rachel Martin]

https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/blob/main/102/features/07-feature-open-news-article-by-ID.patch