Upgrade to Thunderbird 3 breaks Mail Search Function

[Hadmut Danisch]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Hi,

Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 enforced the upgrade to Thunderbird 3, which comes with a questionable tabbing design, breaking important features of older Thunderbird versions.

With older Thunderbirds, you could simpy enter a search string. Thunderbird then displayed the matching messages in the message list. You could then select them all and, e.g., move them into a folder. This allowed to rapidly sort and cleanup mailboxes and was very usefull.

Now with Thunderbird 3, when you enter a search string, it opens a separate Tab, which requires to change the view to get the results. Even worse, you cannot select these messages in any way, they are blown up from one line to 5-6, require scrolling and paging, and there is no way to process them together.

The Upgrade to Thunderbird 3 breaks really important features of the older version.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: thunderbird 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 1 14:10:01 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_US:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[Christian Kaenzig (christian-becool)]

I agree that the new search behavior is questionable, but you can easily revert to the old behavior by selecting another search type by clicking on the Looking Glass icon in the search field (e.g. Subject, From, or Recipient filter).

[dino99 (9d9)]

outdated/deprecated version which has reached EOL does not get support