Bug 131220

Summary: quick search should also be matched against the email address
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: m.wege
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: geroxp
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description m.wege 2006-07-22 21:37:41 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

The fast search function, which helps to find mails in folders by typing in a few letters does only find a search term, if it is at the beginning. So for example if I have mail from "Max Mustermann" <mwfswfn@blabla.com> it will only find the Mail if I type "Max ..", but not if I search for "mw..." This is a problem, if there some mails which do not contain the real name. So it would be great if the search in folder function would also look for part of the header.
Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2006-07-22 23:53:46 UTC 
Your analysis is slightly wrong. KMail doesn't find the mail if you search for "mw..." because only the real name is shown and thus only the real name is matched against. If a message lacks the real name then the email address is shown and matched against.
Comment 2 m.wege 2006-07-23 10:50:27 UTC 
But nevertheless there is a problem in finding all the mails from one author, if they do not have all a realname. I do not know if this helps (in sense of may be there is some code to reuse), but as I recall Thunderbird has a much more comfortable fast search function, where (optional) you can even to a fast search on the content of the mails
Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2006-07-23 12:12:42 UTC 
I fully understand the problem and I hope that we'll be able to address this with KDE 4.
Comment 4 m.wege 2006-07-23 13:09:16 UTC 
great
Comment 5 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-03-10 00:39:53 UTC 
*** Bug 138535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-03-10 00:49:28 UTC 

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