387419 - need saved search option to replace "label - isn't - none"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 353036

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[ian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.4 (20070706)

in previous versions of thunderbird, each message could be "labeled" as one of a variety of possible categories (work, to-do, later, etc).  this made it possible for me to make a saved search to find every message that i had labeled: "label - isn't - none".  

in the current version of thunderbird, the messages can have none, one, or many labels.  however, there is no search criteria that you can do to find all un-tagged messages.  technically, you can list out all the tags as "tags - doesn't contain - XYZ", but then i would have to edit all my saved searches if i ever created a new tag.  

see the problem here?  useful functionality has been removed.

Reproducible: Didn't try

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there are probably a few ways to add this functionality back in, probably the most consistent with the way you do it now would be to have search criteria called "tags - ... - any tag".  then you could say "tags - contains - any tag" or "tags - doesn't contain - any tag".  that would fix it for me.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Dupe/similar: bug 353036