Bug 135970

Summary:	kmail doesn't search in quoted/forwarded/attached text
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Jeffrey <eljefedelito>
Component:	search	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bjoern, eljefedelito
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Jeffrey 2006-10-19 16:42:45 UTC

Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.5.5, Kubuntu (dapper) 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu1)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.15-27-686

when searching for an email i am often only able to think of one or two words which might make it stand out from all of the other email i have.  Sometimes this is enough to find the email, but other times that word or phrase is in the "forwarded" part of a message from a coworker, and the Search bar doesn't pull it up.

Comment 1 Jeffrey 2009-05-27 22:49:10 UTC

I've created a Wish item for Amarok to create the filter as an external library, I am not sure if this helps or not but I think it would.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194348

Comment 2 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-30 00:38:30 UTC

By "forwared" mail you mean inline text? The status line is not scanning the mail text currently IMO - would by quite slow.

Comment 3 Jeffrey 2009-12-30 14:29:58 UTC

> By "forwared" mail you mean inline text?
Yes, like when forwarded text is quoted and has the > symbol in front of it, just like your question above.  This is part of the email and it should be searched.

> The status line is not scanning the mail text currently IMO - would
> by quite slow.
Slow or not, it should be searched as it is a part of the email.  As I suggested, I have requested that Amarok's amazing filter be seperated out as an external library, I don't know if that helps or not.

Thanks for KMail and Kontact!

Comment 4 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-30 23:24:00 UTC

For doing a full search you can always search your messages (press s). The quick search must indeed be quick and doing full text search is not quick enough. 
This may change when kmail is ported to akonadi in KDE 4.5. Then the mails will be stored in a database and possibly indexed with strigi?

Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2010-02-06 21:53:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185066 ***