446578 - Search misses many relevant messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259914

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Matěj Cepl]

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Build Identifier: thunderbird-2.0.0.14-1.fc10.i386

(originally filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455909)

I have a "Sent Items" folder on an IMAP server.  Every single message in the
"Sent Items" folder comes from "Jonathan Kamens
<[e-mail]>".  There are currently 217 messages in the
folder.

When I select "Sender" in the quick search box, type "Jonathan", and hit Enter,
only seven matches are displayed, rather than the expected 217.  The same is
true if I search for "Kamens" or "[e-mail]".

I have tried opening the properties for the folder and rebuilding the index. 
This does not help.  I have tried unsubscribing and resubscribing to the folder.
 This does not help.  I have tried exiting and restarting thunderbird.  This
does not help.

Beagle is able to see all of the messages in the folder, once I install
beagle.xpi from the beagle build (which is missing from the beagle-thunderbird
RPM, as noted in a different bug report), so this tells me that the search which
isn't working isn't using beagle.

Edit > Find > Search Messages is also able to see all of the messages in the
folder, so whatever the problem is, it's limited to the quick search box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
not all message are found

Expected Results:  
they should be

Comment 1

[Steve Simms]

It looks to me as though "Sender" is actually matching the recipient, rather than the sender (in 2.0.0.16).  Does this line up with what you're seeing?

Comment 2

[Steve Simms]

Lacking a confirmation, and having just seen a bug in IRC matching this description, I'm going to mark this one as a duplicate.