Bug 333750

Summary:	search finds mails but doesn't show them in the search dialog
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	piedro <piedro.kulman>
Component:	search	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	piedro.kulman
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	4.13
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description piedro 2014-04-23 06:04:02 UTC

WHen I search for mail I get the message "xy number of results" but none shows in the search window. When I name the search folder and save it I can browse the results but there is no way to edit and adjust the specific settings for this search.

These behaviours make serious searching near to impossible. It is rare to get the search conditions exactly right the first time. So there has to be the possibility to readjust them after the first search run: maybe add another folder or tweak a search string for more precise results ...

While this is definitely true for search folders that have to be revisited another day - say you search for all emails of a customer in different folders and he/she uses different mail addresses. now you have this folder running during a project and the customer starts using an additional email address - now there has to be the possibility to add this to the folder - certainly and foremost the resulting mails of the initial search run in the search dialog window have to show up! Otherwise the only way to check the accuracy of the search filter criteria is to save the unrevised search as folder which in turn can't be adjusted.

So again the search is completely useless - the easy stuff can be done with the quickfilters the complicated stuff can't be handled reliably with the search function... but baloo clogs resources for email fulltext indexing (only useful for complex searching) ... not good, I am afraid, this bug makes kmail2 users loose on more than one front ...

sry and thx for reading,
piedro

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 18:18:53 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 2 piedro 2016-09-24 18:27:17 UTC

I have run some tests on kmail2 (latest version on Arch) a few weeks ago. 
While search provides relevant results now (as it seems at a quick glance) - the virtual folders are still lacking: You can apply additional criteria to a virtual folder but the changes have no effect on the content of the virtual search folder. No matter how one edits the search criteria the results always reflect the configuration of th initial search which created the search folder. 

thx, p.

Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-26 22:25:33 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

If you have already provided the requested information, please set the bug status as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed.

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Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-10-27 03:35:19 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!