567073 - Windows search does not search in From: header

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100513 Firefox/3.5b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100519 Mnenhy/0.8.2 Thunderbird/3.1

I had a message from "Jim Someone" with subject "Some subject".

Using "Jim some subject" faceted search finds the message, while integrated windows search does not.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Message not found.

Expected Results:  
Message found.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

If the subject header is correctly in the saved message, I don't understand how Windows search succeeding would be Thunderbird's responsibility.

Was this a single message, or was the problem global?

Comment 2

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #1)

If the subject header is correctly in the saved message, I don't understand how Windows search succeeding would be Thunderbird's responsibility.

Was this a single message, or was the problem global?

What do you mean by "saved message"?

At the time, Thunderbird was offering some integration with Windows search, so it (=Windows search) was searching the messages inside Thunderbird. No idea if that feature and the Thunderbird integration into it still exists.