834621 - phrase search does not work for numbers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 544580

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Jaap Stolk]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121128204232

Steps to reproduce:

<Ctrl-K> search for email containing the phrase "111-222"


Actual results:

I get results for 111 222 (i.e:  OR word results, instead of phrase results)


Expected results:

Only results containing the "111-222" should be returned.

Comment 1

[Jaap Stolk]

Phrase search works for non-number words, like "foo bar", but that also gives results like "foo 123 bar".
This makes me suspect that there is some logic to ignore numbers, which prevents the phrase search from working as expected when the search words are numbers.

Searching for "111 222" (space instead of dash) also does not do a phrase search.

Documentation like this:
https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/global-search
indicates that seaches for quoted phrases should return exact matches, and makes no exceptions for when the words consist of numbers.

Comment 2

[John Beatty]

Running Linux Mint 16, 64 bit, Thunderbird 24.6.0

Cannot search for the simple phrase "2 years"

Very irritating.

Comment 3

[U. Langenbach]

Windows 7 Professional SP1, Thunderbird 31.3.0

Searching for a string consisting of figures only yields both false negatives and false positives.

One of the newsletters we get, links to the cited news in the form

https://www.foo-bar.tld/?nid=19783

When I search my In folder for

19783

I get no result. A search for

=19783

finds that message, though.

A search for a different number yields not the intended message but another one where that number can't be found, neither in the message as displayed nor in its source text.

(I hope I'll find another false positive with a non-confidential message.)