477463 - Search should apply to all the mailboxes, not just the selected one

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131438

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[laurent]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090205 Shredder/3.0b2pre

Limiting the scope of search to the selected mailbox is very inconvenient - as you well know, to survive in this day and age of email overload one needs multiple mailbox and multiple accounts with appropriate filters. The purpose of search is to find elements for which the user doesn't remember the location.
If search requires the user to remember the mailbox the item is located in, search has failed to fulfill its purpose.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.on a multi mailbox account
2.select mailbox1
3.search item which is located in mailbox2

Actual Results:  
= nothing will get returned

Expected Results:  
items located in mailbox2

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!