538322 - Search doesn't find long subject lines with spaces for email sent from TBird, then read by TBird

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124641

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Ben Slade]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.16) Gecko/2009120206 Firefox/3.0.16
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

When I send an email with a long subject line with space in it from TBird, then read the email with TBird, it displays fine, but when I try and search for the subject line, the search doesn't find it if I specify the whole long subject.  Looking at the raw source for the email, it looks like the subject line is getting wrapped around the 70th character.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Send an email, with Thunderbird 3.0, with the subject line "1234567_1 1234567_2 1234567_3 1234567_4 1234567_5 1234567_6 1234567_7 1234567_8 1234567_9 1234567_0 1234567_A  1234567_B" (all one line, without the quotes)
2.Read the email with Thunderbird 3.0
3.Search for "1234567_7 1234567_8" in the subject line (in the quick search field, select "subject" then enter "1234567_7 1234567_8", or use the edit->find->search messages function, or use filters)

Actual Results:  
Search doesn't find the email

Expected Results:  
Search should find the email

This seems to happen for plain text or html emails.  Ie.,
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
or
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

When I send an email from TBird 3.0 to my yahoo.com email account, I *don't* see any wrapping in the raw email source.

When I send an email from my yahoo.com email account to my local mailbox and read it with TBird 3.0, I *don't* see the wrapping in the raw email source (Content-Type: multipart/alternative if that's relevant)

Related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521238  ?

Comment 1

[Ben Slade]

I also saw similar behavior on Windows XP, specifically:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0
Win XP Pro version 2002 Service Pack 3

Comment 2

[Ben Slade]

Hmmm, I can also recreate this problem on TBird 2.0 (version 2.0.0.23 (20090812)), on Mac OS X (10.6.2).   So this looks like it's not a TBird 3.0 specific problem. 

Also note, the same problem shows up when I search my "sent" folder for sent messages with the long subject lines.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

in that case, probably a duplicate, but I don't think it's a dup of bug 521238.
I would look for an older, already confirmed bug for both this and bug 521238.

Comment 4

[Ben Slade]

Ok, I'll search for old cases like this:

(In reply to comment #3)
> in that case, probably a duplicate, but I don't think it's a dup of bug 521238.
> I would look for an older, already confirmed bug for both this and bug 521238.

Comment 5

[Ben Slade]

Hmmm, this seems to be a duplicate of a 7 year old problem, "Filter or Search: does not handle multi-line (wrapped, folded) headers correctly when search term spans lines"
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124641