418111 - search "entire message" doesn't, really

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271222

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob Retter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: 20071031

I suppose it's a semantic issue, but I assumed that the option "Entire Message" from the dropdown list ofthe text search box in the toolbar (which offers stuff like Subject Line, To, From, etc) would *include* all the various message headers as well as the message bodies.

But in fact, you can enter a text string that appears in some message's Subject line, select "Entire Message" for your search, and it won't be found.  If you try it on the "Subject Line" option, the message will be found.

So basically, what does "entire message" mean?  Include the headers, or not?  It seems to me that it should, but someone there decided that it should not.  I beleive this should be reconsidered and made consistent with other major e-mail programs (yes, such as the Evil Outlook Monster) which do consider "entire" to mean....well, *entire*.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[David Ascher (:davida)]

Agreed.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

xref bug 353347.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This bug should be resolved as a duplicate of bug 271222 from 2004 whose current summary is {"Entire message" quick search criteria is only the body}. There even seems to be some patch work going on, so maybe there's hope...