470251 - Search on "Status is New" in Local Folders does not return messages just downloaded and moved to folder by a filter

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[jmcquie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.18 (20081105)

Here is what happens.   I get new mail, almost all of which is filtered and sorted to local folder mailboxes.   I go to the local folder and perform a search on the entire structure with one criterion:   Status = New.  Somewhere between zero and half of the number of expected messages are displayed on the results page.  If I search again on another criterion such as "Date = (today's date)", I get the expected results.   Here is the odd thing:  if I clear the search and search again on "Status = New", I get all of the messages I would expect to see.

This problem does not seem to occur in the original Inbox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Have a filter that moves some messages from the Inbox to a mailbox in the Local Folder.
2.  Get new mail including message(s) that would be moved to Local Folder
3.  Go to top level of local folder
4.  Right click and select Search
5.  Enter search criterion "Status is New" and search
6.  Examine search results
Actual Results:  
Any messages in Local Folder with Status = New that were there before the Get Mail and Filter ran.

Expected Results:  
A.  Any messages in Local Folder with Status = New that were there before the Get Mail and Filter ran, PLUS
B.  Any newly downloaded and moved messages.

I am not familiar with the code, so this is speculation on my part.  I wonder if the combination of Filters moving messages with something not being initialized when a "Status = New" search begins.  The messages returned could be messages in folders I have not opened since the last time I downloaded e-mail so they would still have the "New" flag set from the time before the download and the filter operation.  Searching on another criterion such as date updates the messages with the current Status flag.

This behavior does not appear to affect the orginal Inbox.   If I search on the original Inbox for any new messages that were not moved, I get the expected results.

This also appears to be separate from other bugs reporting problems with searching on Status is New.   They appear to refer to Saved Searches, I am not using a saved search.

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Can be dupe of bug #272963?

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

jmcquie comcast net : could you try with a recent thundebird 3.0 nightly and tell us if your bug is fixed ? or if it's a dup like Aureliano pointed out ?

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to last comment. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.