User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 In the Mail tool, there is a great "quick search" based on Subject or Sender. It would be better and faster to have that be a drop down where you could choose any option you normally can in the Search Message Window. Doesn't have to handle multiple searches, but my guess is most searches are single queries, but not always subject or sender. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

Several bugs are related, but none i found quite cover this one. Some overlap parts: bug 83971 and bug 92746 are concerned with Newsgroups bug 182073 is for mail, but restriced to an additional search capbility for To and CC fields. Personally I'd really like To, CC and body to be instantly searchable from the Mailnews UI. I NEVER search for subject or sender. That i use sort columns for. Why those two are available as search criteria at all times is a riddle.. The old search interface was much more usable.

I never search for status, or age in days, but in my inbox I probably search for all other options several times a day. Searching by subject or sender is just as useful in culling a large mailbox. My feeling was the simplest thing would be to put that dropdown on the line there, and give it a slight modification. That may be easier said than done.

I doubt it would be faster for the user to fiddle with extra widgets to perform a "quick" search. The way it is now is likely the fastest. As for your idea being better, that's subjective. If you want to demonstrate that your suggestion would really be better, you should provide some evidence to bolster the claim. Otherwise, recommend WONTFIX.

The only field I find myself frequently missing in Quick Search is To: -- From: is great if you're searching the Inbox, but pretty useless in the Sent folder. That would be bug 182073, which was duped to bug 244325. Dupe this to 244325 also? That bug appears to be setting up for a general-purpose QS.

This isn't a dupe of bug 244325. If anything, bug 182073 should be reopened and duped here, because To/Cc still is not in Quick Search. It would be nice if the full Search menu (including custom fields) were optionally available in Quick Search. Make it a hidden pref (a la about:config). Dynamic search is so much more convenient than the separate search window. Two words: Preview Pane. BTW, why is Search only listed as a Component for Moz Suite? It applies equally to Tbird.

*** Bug 295876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 182073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #5) > To/Cc still is not in Quick Search. It is now, for Thunderbird; see bug 256545. The patch appears to me to apply to the suite as well, but I haven't been able to test to verify that.

(In reply to comment #8) > The patch appears to me to apply to > the suite as well, but I haven't been able to test to verify that. Um, OK, I tested; I'd forgotten that the Suite doesn't have the dropdown selector at all, so of course the "To or CC" isn't available. I guess the question is: is this bug simply asking for a Suite port of bug 244325 (the selector that TB has) or is it looking for a more general means to search for any header via QS?

(In reply to comment #9) > I guess the question is: is this bug simply asking for a Suite port of > bug 244325 (the selector that TB has) or is it looking for a more general > means to search for any header via QS? I'd say both. While we're striving to backport interesting stuff into the suite, we're not hesitating to enhance it while doing so. ;-)

This problem still exists in SM2. At least a quick search for mail body should be added