783214 - make filter search in the filter list dialog also match the search term in other fields than filter name

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[:aceman]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #450302 comment 15 +++

Bug 450302 introduced searching for filter according to the filter name only.

Comment 15 John David Galt 2012-04-15 05:33:07 CEST

I would want it to _search_ on all fields, or at least on the strings that the filter itself looks for.  That's where duplicates are most likely to occur; the existing product detects duplicate filter names when you try to create them.

Comment 16 Axel Grude [:realRaven] 2012-04-15 18:41:46 CEST 

It would be nice to react to more fields, but for a first pass a name filter will cover a lot of the use cases. If I filter for AMO or Moz i am very likely to get filters that have to with Addons or Mozilla, so at least from my perspective this is already usability win. 

When we're talking about filter values, apart from the condition values some of the filter action values (such as target folder, or tag as ...) would probably be desirable; this is where it can get easily confusing.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

This would need enumerating all rules in a filter and maybe also all actions. This may be potentially very slow so maybe it should be dependent on some "search all"-checkbox.

Comment 2

[John David Galt]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #1)
As it is now, the workaround is to exit Mozilla and text-edit msgFilterRules.dat, in which case searching for strings is not slow.  If searching in the filter editor turns out to be substantially slower then I'd want to know what so-called feature is causing the delay and take it out.