This is the 'bug' in the upstream, it seems that when Thunderbird is configured NOT to fetch messages from Imap folders by default, adding new headers to search by won't work. One has to unsubscribe and then re- subscribe again to the particular folder (so that TB re-downloads all the headers) for the search to work.
Sometimes it is enough to just repair the folder in question, but I haven't figured out why on occasion this won't work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1631972 Title: Searching messages by arbitrary headers sometimes doesn't work Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have a folder with emails from Launchpad regarding Launchpad bug. All of those emails have, among others, this two headers: X-Launchpad-Bug-Reporter X-Launchpad-Bug-Commenters I added both of those fields as a custom fields inside Thunderbird's 'Customized' headers (in the Search window). I've got over 10k emails in that folder, and all of the emails contain both those headers, and a lot of them contain single letter 'a' as a header content. When I create a search that looks like this: X-Launchpad-Bug-Commenters contains "a" Thunderbird returns almost all emails. But, when I create a search that looks like this: X-Launchpad-Bug-Reporter contains "a" no emails are returned, although there is a lot of emails whose "X -Launchpad-Bug-Reporter" contains an 'a'. This is Thunderbird in trusty: mario@MIKE ~> apt-cache policy thunderbird thunderbird: Installed: 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 Candidate: 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 I have also downloaded/installed Thunderbird from the beta-ppa (ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next), 1:50.0~b1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, and was able to reproduce the above mentioned issue. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: thunderbird 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-96.143-generic 3.13.11-ckt39 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-96-generic x86_64 AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: mario 5345 F.... pulseaudio BuildID: 20160831174751 Channel: Unavailable CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Mon Oct 10 16:03:09 2016 ForcedLayersAccel: False IncompatibleExtensions: Enigmail - {847b3a00-7ab1-11d4-8f02-006008948af5} English (GB) Language Pack - [email protected] Thunderbird (default) - {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-16 (663 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu MATE 14.04.1 "Trusty Tahr" - final amd64 (20141111) IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan1 proto static 10.0.3.0/24 dev lxcbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.3.1 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.138 metric 9 192.168.100.0/24 dev virbr1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.100.1 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1 MostRecentCrashID: bp-04321c15-607b-43fc-a91c-e73792140903 Plugins: IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.5.3 (1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)) - /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so (icedtea-7-plugin) Google Talk Plugin - /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk.so (google-talkplugin) Google Talk Plugin Video Renderer - /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpo1d.so (google-talkplugin) Shockwave Flash - /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so PrefSources: prefs.js [Profile]/extensions/{847b3a00-7ab1-11d4-8f02-006008948af5}/defaults/preferences/enigmail.js Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=45.3.0/20160831174751 (In use) RelatedPackageVersions: icedtea-7-plugin 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 google-talkplugin 5.41.3.0-1 RunningIncompatibleAddons: True SourcePackage: thunderbird SubmittedCrashIDs: bp-04321c15-607b-43fc-a91c-e73792140903 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 07/18/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 8DET69WW (1.39 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 42904XU dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET69WW(1.39):bd07/18/2013:svnLENOVO:pn42904XU:pvrThinkPadX220:rvnLENOVO:rn42904XU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 42904XU dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1631972/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
