User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.5 (Ubuntu-feisty) Build Identifier: 2.0.0.5 I often have to check to which address an email that I received was sent to, and that address is often BCC. Thus, I must open the message source and grep for possibilities. I recently discovered that I could search the Received header by Edit -> Find -> Search Messages- > Customize -> Add and then adding the Received header. In my opinion, this should be a default in the quick search pane. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

I support this request! I prefer to view/search my mail through a folder which contains both sent & received items (e.g. the Gogle Mail All Mail folder). It would be much better if the Quick search bar could search in To, CC & From, Subject at the same time rather than having to do it separately.

I'm confused by what this bug is about. "check to which address an email that I received was sent to, and that address is often BCC" is impossible, BCC for received messages is not possible by design of the protocol. "search the Received header ... should be a default in the quick search pane" Is this the request of this bug? "It would be much better if the Quick search bar could search in To, CC & From, Subject at the same time" Is this the request?

I'm going to take the liberty of clarifying this bug in the light of recent related work, and see it the decisions can be resolved. If the reporter would rather this bug go in a different direction, then please state that, and I'll file a new bug for my specific proposal. In bug 310359 and friends, a new search attribute is being added to try to catch all addresses that are reasonably possible - including from, to, cc, and bcc. The existing Quick search options includes ToOrCc, From, plus the same with Subject included. I propose that we define this bug to be a request that the Quick Search options be extended to include two additional search types: 1) AllAddresses ("From, To, Cc, or Bcc") 2) Subject Or AllAddresses ("Subject, From, To, Cc, or Bcc") I think these are likely to be more popular than the more specific existing searches I also think this should also be consolidated into bug 462578, so this bug would be a dupe of that one (or vice versa)

> "check to which address an email that I received was sent to, and > that address is often BCC" is impossible, BCC for received messages > is not possible by design of the protocol. The meaning is that the person sending the mail put my address in the BCC field of his email client. > "search the Received header ... should be a default in the quick > search pane" > Is this the request of this bug? Yes. > "It would be much better if the Quick search bar could search in > To, CC & From, Subject at the same time" Is this the request? The OP (me) did not write that, a commenter (Felix) did. He should probably file a new bug. > In bug 310359 and friends, a new search attribute is being added to > try to catch all addresses that are reasonably possible - including > from, to, cc, and bcc. The existing Quick search options includes > ToOrCc, From, plus the same with Subject included. That bug looks like what Felix is asking for. Actually, it would solve my issue as well. When (if) 310359 is resolved I will triage it and then decide to either mark this bug as a dupe, or to add more detail. Thanks, Kent.

The new search is too general and does not allow specific searches through messages as we were able to do in previous versions. need to be able to specify which messages etc. to from cc etc and time frames to narrow the search. please, this is driving my wife nuts and she blames me for downloading the latest version.

Larry : the olde serach is still available.

For my part I consider this closed. The Quick Search bar meets my needs. I wonder if Dotan agrees?

Hi Felix. As mentioned in Comment #4, the issue you mention is a different issue. So while your issue may be closed, this issue is not. Steps to reproduce: 1) Send a mail with non-existant@noserver.com in the TO field, and your own address in the BCC field. 2) Download all new mail, including the new message. 3) Filter on your email address in the Quick Search bar The new message should be there, but it is not.