576906 - Search using "body contains linux-arm-kernel" returns wrong mails(false positive in Body Search)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[William E Dunn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 GTB7.1 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8pre) Gecko/20100704 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.1pre (July 4, 2010)

Win-XP Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8pre) Gecko/20100704 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.1pre (July 4, 2010)

Search Messages using "Body Contains text" returns wrong messages.  I tried both a single search on Body Contains "linux-arm-kernel" and as a three-term search on "linux", "arm", and "kernel" using all terms required.  Many messages were returned that contain none of the search terms.  Not all messages containing the search terms were returned.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Menu Edit/Find/Search Messages/
2.  Select "Body" in first box
3.  Select "Contains" in second box
4.  Enter "linux-arm-kernel" in third box or enter "linux", "arm", "kernel" on separate lines
5.  Make sure "Match all of the following" button is selected
6.  Click "Search" button
Actual Results:  
Message containing none of the search terms mixed with a few messages containing search terms.  No pattern evident.

Expected Results:  
Message containing search terms

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Anything in Tools -> Error console ?

Have you tried safe mode? (see https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode for more information)

Comment 2

[gene c]

Worse - the key 'body' is not always visible:

see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518188

This is with nightly 3.1.3pre build as of yesterday.

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Duped bug by comment #3 seems "search of message/rfc822 part, then mime header line in message/rfc822 part matches" case, because that bug referes to phenomenon "Content-Disposition: attachment matches".
Re-opening.

There are two kinds of known issue of "header is searched".
(a) Tb searches "message body data of message/rfc822 part" == a mail data stream
(b) bug 697021 on multipart mail. (Tb searches message header of next mail)

To William E Dunn(bug opener):

Is any found mail by your search multipart mail?
If so, is there message/rfc822 part in found mails? 
Is there any mail which has "linux-arm-kernel" header at top part of message headers, in same mail folder?
If "Order Received" column is shown and mails are sorted by the column in ascending order, does mail next to a found mail contain "linux-arm-kernel" header?

If "search of message/rfc822 part" is not involved in your case, you may be looking phenomenon of bug 697021.

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Bug for known issue of (a) in comment #4 is bug 700541.

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

linux-arm-kernel seems mailing list name.
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
> Using linux-arm-kernel
> To post a message to all the list members, send email to [e-mail].
Mail address like linux-arm-kernel@... can perhaps appear in message header of many mails, if you subscribe linux-arm-kernel mailing list.

Comment 7

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

No response for more than 3 months from bug opener. Because many similar reports already exist. No need to keep open this bug any more.
Closing as INCOMPLETE.