Unrelated results after a search

Bug #317788 reported by Graeme Geldenhuys
6
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thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: thunderbird

If I search by "Subject", the results that Thunderbird returns is not related to my search text. It returns emails or newsgroup postings that don't even have the search text in the subject. The same goes for search by Message Body (offline newsgroup postings) or by "To" field.

So for me the search feature in Thunderbird is totally useless and unusable. It doesn't matter how I invoke the search
  * Edit | Find | Search Message...
  * Right click on Folder or Newsgroup | Search Message...
  * Search box in toolbar
The results are always unrelated to the search term!

I have tried this on my work PC and my Home PC, and both return the same rubbish results.

I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (under Linux). Ubuntu 7.10 with most updates applied.

I'll try and attach a screenshot which shows the problem. In the screenshot you will see I am searching by Subject for text containing what I entered.... "tree build". And if you look at the search results. Not a single resulting message has the term "tree build" in the Subject line!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 16 10:17:38 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux graeme 2.6.22-16-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:28:27 GMT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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Graeme Geldenhuys (graemeg) wrote :
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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates (in fact thunderbird search has been completely redone!). It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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