461721 - From Addressbook contacts, it should be possible to search directly for and list all emails involving that contact

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[kayza.zajac]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3

When in the Address book, it should be possible to click on "search for all email" or something of like that, and get all the emails to and from that contact.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[hansen]

This bug is a dupe. Can't find the other bug.

You can use ReplySearch extension at the moment, but this feature would require Gloda, which isn't done yet.
http://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/index-en.html#replysearch

Comment 2

[kayza.zajac]

I had looked for something like this, but couldn't find it. If you do, I don't mind removing this one, and voting for the other one instead.

Comment 3

[kayza.zajac]

I looked at ReplySearch, but it doesn't really do the same thing.

By the way, what is gloda?

Comment 4

[hansen]

Gloda is Global Database. So moving from the current indexes to a real database.

There's loads of possibilities with Gloda, but it's not done yet.

For more info about Gloda read Bug 450494.

Comment 5

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

We'll be implementing this functionality from the message reader, so we can probably get it happening from the address book too.  The only difficulty will likely be that the address book opens in its own window, but that should not pose a major problem; we just need to find a general messenger window and reach in to its tabmail implementation.

Comment 6

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Excellent, we needed this bug filed!  Not sure that it's blocking, but definitely wanted.

If you want to try your hand at making this patch take a look at the exptoolbar code where an extra menu item is added to the email address popup.

https://hg.mozilla.org/users/bugmail_asutherland.org/exptoolbar/file/31ee9aa96257/content/thunderbirdOverlay.xul#l105

You'll want to add something similar to that piece into the popup menu from the address book list, found here:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/components/addrbook/content/addressbook.xul#219

Like andrew points out the only tricky part would be grabbing the base (mail) window to open your search results in.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Same idea as in this bug, but different starting point: Bug 550832 and bug 518295 request filter/search for msgs involving given contact from header pane's email addresses (sender/recipients contacts' context menu).

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

We could add a button around here: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/9d6eaf1698eb98cf65032d4292147195a7446959/mail/components/addrbook/content/addressbook.xhtml#821