Bug 105478

Summary: The search bar should also search the e-mail addresses.
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Gilles Schintgen <gschintgen>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gilles Schintgen 2005-05-11 19:58:41 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

Currently the quicksearch bar doesn't consider the e-mail addresses. In my opinion, the addresses (From, To, etc.) should also be searched. Often it's easier and faster to type some substring of a known e-mail address than to type that person's name.

I don't consider this to be a duplicate of 97519 since more is less when it comes to search bars.
Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2005-05-15 19:58:18 UTC
It searchs what it displays, when you enable the receiver column it will also be searched.
Comment 2 Gilles Schintgen 2005-05-16 13:10:07 UTC
On Sunday 15 May 2005 19:58, Stephan Binner wrote:
> It searchs what it displays, when you enable the receiver column it will
> also be searched.

Hmm, I don't quite understand. For example, right now your mail is displayed 
with "Stephan Binner" as "Sender", but the corresponding From field in the 
message is not searched. When I type "binner@kde" nothing shows up. Do you 
mean that there's some way to enable an additional field containing the 
e-mail address?
In any case, I think it would be best if the filter bar would also search 
things like the actual e-mail addresses without forcing me to clutter my 
display with additional columns.

I should perhaps add an example: some of my friends use webmail, but only part 
of the time. The result is that some mails contain a formatted name in the 
from field, others don't. The one thing that I can be sure of is that all the 
messages contain the e-mail address. Therefore it would be most natural to 
just type the address.
Comment 3 Matt Douhan 2005-05-28 22:26:41 UTC
well it can only search what is visible really anything else makes no sense, cause it would need a config dialog to enable what hidden fields should be searched wich open a can of worms really.

Also there is a new search in the works
Comment 4 Till Adam 2005-06-11 19:14:22 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99094 ***