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

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Comment	>>> 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.
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