81098 - Search Mail Didn't work for Sender

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Cindy Roberts]

I did a search on my Inbox for "Sender is x".  The search seemed to get into an 
infinite loop and didn't return results.  I did the same search in 4.x and 
received the result in a few seconds.

May 11th Build, POP Mail

Comment 1

[laurel]

*** Bug 81017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

Does this happen repeatedly?
Your search was Sender Contains?
What value for sender was it?
Can you use sender contains search on the same inbox for other values?
Were you indeed searching on the Inbox or the entire POP account?
Did you click Stop or did it never finish on its own?

Any info for reproducing this would be helpful.
Sender contains search on POP account with may15 commercial trunk build, win98
works for me.

If you're really using Sender with the operator IS as opposed to CONTAINS,
you're probably hitting the bug where we're not reflecting accurate criteria
choices on switching (main bug 60514).

Comment 3

[laurel]

Any more information for me on this one? If not, I'll be marking it worksforme.

Comment 4

[Cindy Roberts]

Here is some additional information.  I used the May 24th build and had the same 
bug.  I did a search for "Subject contains SecureID" in my POP Inbox.  After one 
minute I didn't see any results.  I then tried this in 4.7x.  The same search 
yielded one e-mail.   Note that I have 5200 mails in my Inbox.  Come by my desk 
on the 1st floor, building 21, if you want me to show this to you.

Comment 5

[laurel]

Is this message you searched for with SecureID appearing in your (current build)
Inbox thread pane, i.e. can you see it in the mail window thread pane?
Can you get successful search results on other searches initiated on this same
Inbox with current build?

Comment 6

[Cindy Roberts]

Just figured out what was wrong.  When my Inbox was in the mail window pane
thread I chose to search mail/news messages.  The mail box that was
automatically selected was "Inbox on roberts on NSmail-1".  When I search on
that mailbox no results are found and I appear to be in an infinite loop. 
However, I can choose "Inbox on Local Folders" and perform a search.  It finds
the items in my search criteria but the performance is quite poor.  And, when I
select the Local Mail folder from my hierarchical mail folder list the last part
of the hierarchical menu (top item is Choose this Folder) is disjointed from the
menu.   Seems to be 3 issues a) doesn't select my Inbox from Local as the
default 2) Hierarchical menu isn't connected 3) Performance 

Comment 7

[laurel]

Removing dogfood keyword.
About your 3 issues:
1.  We should indeed select the default account as search scope if there is no
selection when search is called.  If a selection is made in Local Folders, we
should default to that selected folder or if acct level, that selected account
level "local folders".
     If I select a folder/Inbox or have a message selected in a folder/Inbox on
Local Folders the launch search, it shows the selection as "folder/Inbox on
Local Folders" as the search scope. If I select the acct level "Local Folders"
and launch search it shows the account level "Local Folders" in the search scope.
     Is this not the case for you? 
2.   Disjointed hierarchical menus is bug 78409.
3.   Performance is another issue -- we have some specific detailed performance
bugs for certain scenarios, but if you feel strongly enough, log a separate
performance bug about search.

It is difficult to track meandering issues in one bug.  Whenever possible,
please try to keep it to one bug, one issue.

Lastly, are you truly looping when searching your default Inbox or is it that
it's just taking too long?  Can you use the Stop button on the search? If you
wait awhile do results or "no matches" text appear?

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

not a stop ship bug. 

Comment 9

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I cannot see that this bug still is actual. Should be closed?

Comment 10

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

agree with comment 9 - WFM  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050917 SeaMonkey/1.1a

If still a problem, then reopen after testing with newest version