619640 - Search Messages does not get match on subject

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124641

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[hawran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 - Build ID: 20101207084811

I've been looking for some messages with particular words within their Subject: 
Pre-Assessment Form for Review

Edit/Find/Search messages on my Inbox (or whatever under), choose both "Search subfolders" and "Run search on server", Subject, Contains: Pre-Assessment Form for Review
No message.

Contains: Pre-Assessment Form for
All messages with the words (within a Subject) have been found.

With the same result when unselecting "Run search on server"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit/Find/Search (or Ctrl+Shift+F) messages on a messages folder
2.choose both "Search subfolders" (and "Run search on server")
3.Subject, Contains: Pre-Assessment Form for Review
Actual Results:  
No messages.

Expected Results:  
Messages with words within a subject.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Please save (File > Save) sample message that it does not find and attach as a file to the bug

Comment 2

[hawran]

Those particular messages contain our company's internals, :-(
Their subjects are as follows:
FW: Charging Transfer - Quality Processes - Pre-Assessment Form for Review

Would it be enough?
Or let's make up some other way ...

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to previous question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Those particular messages contain our company's internals, :-(
> Their subjects are as follows:
> FW: Charging Transfer - Quality Processes - Pre-Assessment Form for Review
> 
> Would it be enough?
> Or let's make up some other way ...

 FW: Charging Transfer - Quality Processes - Pre-Assessment Form for Review 
probably spans multiple lines

you should be able to see that with View > Message Source

Comment 5

[hawran]

???

from	Wayne Mery (vn) <[e-mail]>
to	[e-mail]
date	26 January 2011 18:07
subject	Fwd: [Bug 619640] Search does not work correctly
mailed-by	lehigh.edu

if you do "view source" does the subject appear to be on multiple lines in the header source?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Bug 619640] Search does not work correctly ...

===================================================================
from	hawran diskuse <[e-mail]>
to	"Wayne Mery (vn)" <[e-mail]>
date	28 January 2011 19:42
subject	Re: [Bug 619640] Search does not work correctly
mailed-by	gmail.com

Yes, exactly.
A sample follows:
...
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:38:32 +0100
Subject: RE: Charging Transfer - Quality Processes - Pre-Assessment Form for
 Review
Thread-Topic: Charging Transfer - Quality Processes - Pre-Assessment Form
 for Review
...

Regards,
hawran

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Subject: RE: Charging Transfer - Quality Processes - Pre-Assessment Form for
 Review

makes this a duplicate of bug 124641. If you change the filter such that it matches what is on the FIRST line of subject then your filter will work