[Tickets #13616] Re: Change default search pattern in webmail to FROM/TO/CC/BCC/Subject

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Ticket URL: https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/13616
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  Ticket             | 13616
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | Change default search pattern in webmail to
                     | FROM/TO/CC/BCC/Subject
  Queue              | Horde Groupware Webmail Edition
  Version            | 5.2.0
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Rejected
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2014-10-07 23:32) wrote:

>> The dynamic_prefs hook has been added to git master to allow for an
>> admin to change the default search criteria.
>
> So in future each admin can change the default search criteria?  
> Wouldn't it be nice, that a user can change this. If you where admin  
> on a webmail I use, at least on of us would be sad ;)

Users have always been able to change their "default".  Namely - the  
last search field used is saved.

Technically speaking, a *user* can't change defaults, since they need  
to access the UI at least once - and this first display necessarily  
needs to be set to some kind of setting.  Only admins can define  
defaults.

>> And it doesn't make sense to default to a header only search since
>> that's not how a "normal" user thinks search works.  90% of my
>> searches are for message *content*.  I don't know/care who sent me a
>> message most of the time, and subject's are pretty much worthless for
>> a general search since they often have very little connection to the
>> context of the message
>
> Ok, that is correct. But I have a subfolder with 20000 mails and it  
> took ages for the result list (ok ca. 60s).

OK - but how is header searching any faster?  Unless you are making an  
assumption that the IMAP server indexes header - but there is  
absolutely no way that is guaranteed.

> What about to add FROM/TO/CC/BCC/Subject to the set of predefined  
> searches? (Or the ability to add custom searches to the list).

I could possibly be talked into adding From to the current  
"Recipients" option (To/Cc/Bcc) and changing into an "All Recipients"  
option.

Then again, there is common use cases for To only searches (i.e. I  
remembered that "bob" sent me a message and want to search for it - I  
don't care about messages that he received).  So not really inclined  
to do this at this time.

It still makes zero sense to me to combine address searching with  
subject searching.