On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Michael Heydekamp listuser@freexp.de wrote:
Besides this particular feature, which is most appreciated, I realized some other changes in the search function which I wanted to discuss already days/weeks ago, but I didn't find the time yet to do so. So I take this opportunity:
- When I do a search in the INBOX for the "From:" header and afterwards
select the Sent folder, the same search will be applied to this Sent folder. Of course, no (or almost no) messages will be displayed.
Is this intentional? At least it doesn't make much sense to me, can this behaviour be disabled...?
Yes, this is intentional. Beside that many other mail clients re-initiate the search when changing the folder instead of resetting it, the main reason for the change in Roundcube is to create the ability to refine your results (from a multi-folder search) to a certain folder and its subfolders.
I agree that for certain searches (like your example wit From:) it doesn't make too much sense but still I believe it's a useful change. Currently you can't disable it and I don't think a permanent setting would satisfy the different uses cases anyway. Sometimes you want it and sometime you don't. But maybe we can find a better way to make this "re-search in another folder" function more explicit. Suggestions?
- The same applies to a text search in the body, which takes a long time
here anyway. Also this doesn't make too much sense to me, that the body search in one folder will be applied again after selecting another folder.
For body text searches this makes even more sense to me.
And, BTW: How can I cancel a text search at all (except reloading the web page by pressing F5)?
You're right, there's currently no way to abort ongoing searches. We'll figure something our here.
- Is there any hope to initiate a search in the header of the messages
only...?
Maybe there is. But I guess there are some more details to be taken into account and I'd like to keep that out of this particular thread in order to remain on the cross-folder topic.
Thanks for your feedback!
~Thomas