604377 - Quick filter should be able to remember search target (sender, recipient, subject, body) per folder

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Martin Canoy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 3.1.4

When using the filter bar, it is desirable to have different filter options for different folders.

For example, for Inbox, one might normally filter on sender & subject.

But for the Sent folder, filtering on sender makes no sense, better options would be to be recipient and subject.

Right now, once you define the filter criteria, this seems to move from folder to folder.  You have to re-set the filter options when moving from folder to folder versus being able to define one for each folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select Inbox
2. Then type in a word in the filter search box.
3. Then define the filter criteria, ie. sender and subject.
4. Then select the Sent folder
5. Type in a work in the filter search box.
6. The filter criteria remains sender and subject.  Would like to be able to define criteria unique to each folder.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Ah, this is about the Quick filter search that is per folder. And about the fields where to search for the search term (sender, recipient, subject, body).

Haven't seen a dupe so far.

Comment 2

[timbo63]

I was about to create a new item for this but see it's already been flagged in 2010.

I think maintaining a quick filter "per folder" is good, but honestly, I'd be OK if just the "Sent" folder was special.   As the OP said, it makes no sense to filter on "Sender" in the "Sent" folder.  Those were sent by.. me!   However, I would typically want "Sender" in other folders and occasionally "Recipients".   I'd be OK if those were per-folder, or just used the last search types for all non "Sent" folders (which might be easier to code).

I typically need to do quicksearch between Inbox, latest saved month and Sent folders and during a typical day it means toggling between Sender and Recipients for every search task, multiple times as I change folders and search criteria until I find what I'm looking for.   Worst is to forget to toggle the buttons and realize I need to go back and redo the searches.

Comment 4

[Ruediger]

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed in three years. Is it going to be at all now that there's supposedly only security fixes??

The most frustrating thing is that this inbox<->sent used to work automatically in earlier versions (pre-3.0? who keeps count in this new version system...)!!

Comment 5

[Richard Neill]

I agree with #2; it would be enough for just having the sent folder special. Is there a bug bounty for this?

Comment 7

[sphakka]

Interested folks, please, go vote for this. I'm transitioning from Seamonkey Mail where this feature is already implemented: I really miss it in TB! My use case is for for accounts with an "All" (virtual) folder, where (with Seamonkey) I permanently keep the "Inbox" quick-filtered by "Unread" and let the "All" folder show everything.