377921 - Saved Search Folder Selection: New folders not included and difficult to select with lots of folders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286059

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[David]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

This is a copy of Bug 286059 but I'm reporting it against Thunderbird 2.

All of the ideas mentioned there are good ones. I'd like to also suggest that the checkboxes for selecting a folder behave in a four-state kind of way.

1st click: select the folder
2nd click: select all child folders (if applicable)
3rd click: unselect the folder
4th click: unselect all child folders (if applicable)

Or something less confusing. I'd even tolerate a right-click 'select all children'

Another good point from the original bug: if you add a folder and the parent folder was in the search, the new child folder should be as well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a saved search folder containing a folder tree
2. Add a new folder inside this tree with some mails
3. Run the saved search
Actual Results:  
The new folder isn't searched. So you have to manually add it to the search
folder .

Expected Results:  
1. It could detect that it is a child and ask to include it.

or

2. In the create search folder dialog it could have been an option to do it
recursively.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

No need for another bug just because of version change.