Search doesn't find emails, even when listed in suggestions dropdown

[Bugsbane]

Hi there,
I just downloaded and installed n1 on Ubuntu 15.10 with the Plasma (KDE) desktop. After adding an imap email account and having to wait quite a while for the inbox results to show up, I noticed something strange about search.

Basically no search results ever show up.

This happens despite the dropdown suggestions, when you're typing in the search bar, clearly finding results, and threads with the phrase in the content body. I also made sure I searched for emails that were plain text, to ensure it wasn't some HTML email issue, but it wasn't.

hit enter, and I just get "No threads were found to display"

The log file is empty and CLI doesn't show anything.

n1 version 0.3.26-c1ce330 (I wish you'd put this info somewhere it could actually be copied, like in the help window...)

Ubuntu 15.10 with the Plasma / KDE workspace.

[bengotow]

Hi @Bugsbane — unfortunately, N1 maps through to your underlying mail provider's search (usually IMAP) to execute the search query. For some reason, that is returning no results even for the exact subject phrase. Can you try searching for only the first 10-20 characters of the email subject and let me know fi that changes the results?

We'll implement our own full search eventually, but for now we're tied to whatever search results Exchange / Gmail / IMAP can provide.

[Bugsbane]

No, I get no search results at all under any circumstances that I've tried, including:

• Searching for one word
• Searching for the first 10-20 characters
• Clicking on the thread in the search suggestion dropdown

I'm on HostGator, which is a pretty popular host. Would it be of any value to you for me to create a test email account that you could experiment with?

[enoversum]

Can confirm, despite having suggestions right in the list below the search box when typing in a single word as a search term, absolutely no search results are found for whatever search term I use. Using another e-mail client I am able to find just what I need, both from local cache and the slower IMAP search (slow, but working).

[bengotow]

Hey folks, I believe this has been fixed in 92b3e67. We weren't URL encoding the query string, so queries with foreign characters and some punctuation were breaking the search. There may be other issues if even basic searches aren't working for you, though...

[bengotow]

Feel free to re-open if this is still an issue in the next release!

[kaspar-allenbach]

Same for me. I have a email with the subject "Reboot". The term "Reboot" is then suggested by the search but then it says "No threads found".

Im running on (0.3.27-1c2a936)

[alessandro-fazzi]

I can confirm the search is absolutely not working even in 0.4.5-b0ec335.
I simply believe relaying on IMAP search is a no-no for both functionality and speed.

Is internal search somewhat milestone-d/prioritized?

[Bugsbane]

Still getting this issue in 0.4.5-b0ec335 even when searching for just a word comprised only of letters, and the search suggestion returns an email title made up only of letters and spaces. This issue should be reopened.

[lmartins]

Same here, no results no matter what I try.

[Bugsbane]

Just updated two days ago. Issue persists.

[jstejada]

Hi everyone, there was 3 separate issue for this so I'm merging into a single one: #750

[circuitfive]

Search is not returning all results. It seems like it's returning recent conversations, but nothing more than a few months old.

Version 0.4.32-1de17e7 (0.4.32-1de17e7)

For me, "success" means that N1 shows me the exact same results that I get when I do an identical search via Gmail or Google Inbox. Right now it's not even close.

[cpescott]

Same as @circuitfive - search not returning full results (only goes a couple months back).

[plzh]

Hi @bengotow, I have the same problem - search not returning full results. It is very disappointed to see such seriously issues are closed without truly been fixed.