Today, if you choose the Message Body criteria from the quick search drop down box, we end up doing an offline body search. This only works if you are an offline user of course. At the same time, I can do an advanced search and do an online search for body contains as against my IMAP server and I can get results back. Should we consider making the body searching code in: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mail/base/content/searchBar.js#404 smart enough to change the scope term to an online imap body search in certain scenarios?

nominating for .8 while we consider our options.

I guess in createSearchTermsWithList we could check if it's a body search, and adjust the scope accordingly. I think we should probably do this, only if we're not offline. We might not do this if the folder is configured for offline use.

the only thing this patch doesn't do is fall back to the offline scope if the folder is marked for offline use

Comment on attachment 155317 [details] [diff] [review] potential fix looks good to me.

fixed branch and trunk

Any chance the fix for this can be applied to the same issue with MailViews? (See bug 196605, bug 199689.) I've just checked with the 0806 Seamonkey and there is still no access to the remote bodies of the message with a MailView.

my patch broke pop 3 body searching from the quick search bar. re-opening.

only switch the search scope to online if the folder in question is an imap folder.

fix for POP3 regression checked in.

*** Bug 234447 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I see this working for POP and IMAP with TB 0.8, Win2K.