576528 - Column list change is not applied to search folders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 660211

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Maciej Jaros]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100504 Firefox/3.5.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 - Build ID: 20100608023648

The problem seems to occure because search folders doesn't seem to be treated as other folders when applying column settings to subfolders (see Bug 505035).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a search subfolder in folder A
2.Change column settings in some folder (let's call it B).
3.Apply settings from folder B to folder A and all of it's subfolders.
Actual Results:  
Columns change in A (and any normal subfolders) but not in the search subfolder.

Expected Results:  
Columns change in A and _all_ of it's subfolders (type shouldn't matter).

I have search folders in RSS, but this also happens for any search folders (that is including folders in an e-mail box).

BTW. Newly created search folders also don't inherit column preferences from it's parent, but I'm guessing that underlying cause might be the same.

Comment 1

[J C]

I have verified that this problem remains in Thunderbird Portable 3.1.10 .

BTW, many BIG thanks to the developer who created the feature and made it work well with regular folders. Still, it would be nicer and more consistent if search folders' columns didn't need to be configured separately.

Since the original post 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505035
with its 74 votes is now closed, I'll cast my vote here.

Jon