Search type should be remembered for each mailbox.

[Rob Frohne]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I have an Inbox and a Sent box (among others) that I search frequently. When I search the Inbox, I usually search Subject/From, but when I search the Sent, it is usually To. The problem is that Thunderbird doesn't remember that for each mailbox. When I change from Inbox to Sent, I have to change the search criteria again, and likewise when I change back. It would be nice if that could be remembered.

If you don't like this, perhaps just making the default search criteria for Sent to be To/Subject might work nicely too.

Best regards,

Rob

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.19+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/brightq//bin:/usr/local/brightq//bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-12-generic i686

[Martin-canoy (martin-canoy)]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 3.1.4

When using the filter bar, it is desirable to have different filter options for different folders.

For example, for Inbox, one might normally filter on sender & subject.

But for the Sent folder, filtering on sender makes no sense, better options would be to be recipient and subject.

Right now, once you define the filter criteria, this seems to move from folder to folder. You have to re-set the filter options when moving from folder to folder versus being able to define one for each folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select Inbox
2. Then type in a word in the filter search box.
3. Then define the filter criteria, ie. sender and subject.
4. Then select the Sent folder
5. Type in a work in the filter search box.
6. The filter criteria remains sender and subject. Would like to be able to define criteria unique to each folder.

[Marty-a (marty-a)]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Dealio Toolbar 3.1 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6

Some email folders contain inherently received messages, like the In box.
Some email folders contain inherently sent messages, like the Sent box.
It would make sense and save time if the last "Sender" & "Recipient" selection in the Quickfilter be remembered from folder to folder.

Reproducible: Always

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

makes sense to me too.

however, are there cases where this behavior is not desirable, and do they outweigh the examples in favor of doing this.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617378

[Acelists (acelists)]

Ah, this is about the Quick filter search that is per folder. And about the fields where to search for the search term (sender, recipient, subject, body).

Haven't seen a dupe so far.

[Tconrad63 (tconrad63)]

I was about to create a new item for this but see it's already been flagged in 2010.

I think maintaining a quick filter "per folder" is good, but honestly, I'd be OK if just the "Sent" folder was special. As the OP said, it makes no sense to filter on "Sender" in the "Sent" folder. Those were sent by.. me! However, I would typically want "Sender" in other folders and occasionally "Recipients". I'd be OK if those were per-folder, or just used the last search types for all non "Sent" folders (which might be easier to code).

I typically need to do quicksearch between Inbox, latest saved month and Sent folders and during a typical day it means toggling between Sender and Recipients for every search task, multiple times as I change folders and search criteria until I find what I'm looking for. Worst is to forget to toggle the buttons and realize I need to go back and redo the searches.

[Alta88 (alta88)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 604377 ***

[Alta88-t (alta88-t)]

*** Bug 617378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Ruebe (ruebe)]

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed in three years. Is it going to be at all now that there's supposedly only security fixes??

The most frustrating thing is that this inbox<->sent used to work automatically in earlier versions (pre-3.0? who keeps count in this new version system...)!!

[Rn214-richardneill (rn214-richardneill)]

I agree with #2; it would be enough for just having the sent folder special. Is there a bug bounty for this?

[Vseerror (vseerror)]

*** Bug 1135631 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

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. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 334693

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug did not expire due bug watch
Upstream bug marked as duplicate of #604377 so changing
Still a valid enhancement request
Confirming as affects me too

[Marcoep (marcoep)]

Interested folks, please, go vote for this. I'm transitioning from Seamonkey Mail where this feature is already implemented: I really miss it in TB! My use case is for for accounts with an "All" (virtual) folder, where (with Seamonkey) I permanently keep the "Inbox" quick-filtered by "Unread" and let the "All" folder show everything.