Re: [Geary] Something funky with search

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

[cc'ing the list again]

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, 4 May, 2020 at 09:00, Stephen Michel <s smichel me> wrote:
> While testing, I noticed that A never appears in searches. So I tried 
> starring an email in a different subfolder, and it does not appear, 
> either. It seems that subfolders are never searched for stars; only 
> direct children of the inbox. A regular search for the title will 
> find either email, though.
>
> Here's what I just did to test, starting before I starred this email.
>
> - Baseline: B appears.
> - Starred C and returned to the search. Both appear.
> - Moved C to an unrelated folder (needs-response). Only B appears.
>     - Bug seems to affect any folder, not just Archive.
> - Click to view contents of needs-response folder. Both appear.
>     - It took ~1 second for C to appear in this list, strengthening 
> my suspicion that it's a sync issue.
> - Ensured geary will not run in background. Closed and re-opened. 
> Only B appears.
> - Click to view contents of needs-response folder. Both appear.
>     - This time, no delay for C to appear. Maybe not (exclusively) a 
> sync issue. Indexing, perhaps?


This is some good information, thanks for looking into it. Does this 
also happen with other fields, such as the sender or subject line? If 
so, this and the issue reported in 
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues/474> may be the same 
thing.

//Mike

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