Re: Kmail 5.2.3 find messages

On 03/08/17 21:53, John White wrote:
> My "find messages" problem occurred suddenly and for no reason when I
> was using Jessie. I upgraded to stretch in hopes it would fix it. It did
> not fix it. Nothing fixes it. I have tried everything and am about as
> certain as I can be that it is a bug. Shame. I have installed icedove
> and am now running both programs on my pop 3 system, using icedove to
> search and kmail for everything else. Does anyone know of a way I can
> search emails with Dolphin?
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> John White
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> On Wednesday, March 8, 2017 11:21:58 AM PST John White wrote:
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>> My "find messages" problem occurred suddenly and for no reason when I was
>
>> using Jessie. I upgraded to stretch in hopes it would fix it. It did not
>
>> fix it. Nothing fixes it. I have tried everything and am about as certain
>
>> as I can be that it is a bug. Shame. I have installed icedove and am now
>
>> running both programs on my pop 3 system, using icedove to search and
> kmail
>
>> for everything else. Does anyone know of a way I can search emails with
>
>> Dolphin?
>
>>
>
>> John White
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>> On Wednesday, March 8, 2017 7:34:46 PM PST [email protected] wrote:
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>> > On 07/03/17 21:18:51 CET, solitone wrote:
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>> > > So, I would open a bug report. The issue affects three users all on
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>> > > debian
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>> > > stretch. Do you think it would be better to report it to debian, that
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>> > > will
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>> > > in case send it upstream, or rather directly to kde?
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>> >
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>> > Stretch provides an older version of Kmail, therefore someone should
> take
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>> > care of providing a patch suitable not only for the latest version of
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>> > Kmail
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>> > but also for that one in Stretch.
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>> >
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>> > Given that, I think it could be better to open a bug report in
> Debian and
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>> > ask the maintainers to forward it upstream (Debian reportbug allows
> you to
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>> > add the "upstream" tag to the report).
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>> >
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>> > Regards
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>> > Francesco
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>
i am on another distro, Kubuntu 16.04 LTS using backports ppa so am on 
KMail 5.2.3, don't even ask what Plasmas me here and there but I think 
5.8 something. And I see exactly the same: mail search and contacts 
search is once again gone missing

kind regards, Sinclair