Open
Bug 37653
Opened 25 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
Ability to retrieve arbitary msg from msg-store by msg-id
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)
MailNews Core
Backend
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
Future
People
(Reporter: BenB, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 2 open bugs)
Details
Please excuse me, if this is already fixed, but 4.x could only find msg by
msg-id, if it knew the folder, where it lives. Of course, this dramatically
reduces the usefulness of this essential feature.
Not sure, if all IMAP servers support it, but we should
- use it, if it is supported by the server
- support it in local folders
- support it, even if the server doesn't support it directly, by seaching our
summary files
Comment 1•25 years ago
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thanks for filing this, ben.
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Comment 4•23 years ago
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Current summary is: Ability to retrieve arbitary msg from msg-store by msg-id
Blocks: 108877
Comment 5•23 years ago
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I programed a little xpi-addon for mozilla which helps to find the message to a
certain messageid.
It integrates a menu-item to the message pane context menu. So you just have to
right-click on the messageid and then choose the adequate newsserver in the
context menu.
Your could find the xpi-addon and some explainations at:
http://messageidfinder.mozdev.org/
Markus
PS: Waiting for feedback
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Comment 6•17 years ago
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Markus, Did your patch of Bug #62033 address any of this bugs requirements.
This bug is showing as blocking Bug # 62033 in the dependency tree of Bug #62033.
Related to Thunderbird bug 264270?
Updated•16 years ago
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Assignee: mscott → nobody
QA Contact: lchiang → backend
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Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
Comment 8•16 years ago
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gloda can be used to determine this for indexed mail folders (and news too, if we indexed that, which we don't.) (note: I know BenB is well aware of this, just adding this note to the bug for people who stumble upon this bug)
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Comment 9•16 years ago
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Andrew, yes, gloda is great and solves the majority of this bug. As you can see, I wished for something like it since 2000 :).
Re-reading the initial description, a few ideas:
For IMAP folders not indexed by gloda, is there a way to ask the IMAP server to retrieve an arbitrary message based on msg-id?
For NNTP, I think that exists: <nttp://server/msgid> works, IIRC.
There could be a function getMessageByMsgID(msgid), which first checks gloda, then IMAP and/or NNTP server (depending on current account).
Comment 10•2 years ago
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Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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