Bug 3458

Summary: Subscribe-to-new-newsgroup search function gives incomplete results
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: walt <w41ter>
Component: NNTPAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.12.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description walt 2015-07-02 15:54:50 UTC
Example:  create a claws nntp account for gmane.org

Right-click on the name of the gmane.org account and select "Subscribe to newsgroup" to open the Newsgroup subscription dialog box.

In the search box type "*gnome*"

The gmane.org server carries close to a hundred gnome-related groups, but claws is showing me only a dozen or so.

Is it really necessary to include the leading and trailing * in the search term?  The same search function in thunderbird works without the *

Thanks
Comment 1 Paul 2015-07-02 16:32:29 UTC
As you already know, yes, it is necessary to include the leading and trailing *.
Comment 2 walt 2015-07-02 16:53:24 UTC
Resolved invalid?

Did you even try the newsgroup search function?  I doubt it, because it's broken and needs to be fixed and the bug I described has nothing to do with * wildcards.

The search results omit about 90% of valid strings.
Comment 3 Paul 2015-07-02 17:01:21 UTC
of course I tried it! C'mon!
I saw what seemed to be close to a hundred results.
Comment 4 walt 2015-07-02 17:08:27 UTC
Okay, thanks.  Maybe this is a problem only with recent git sources, or maybe a linux-only thing.  I'll go try to reproduce it with other versions and on windows.

If necessary I'll try git bisecting it.

Thanks again.
Comment 5 Paul 2015-07-02 17:13:24 UTC
I'm using the latest GIT and linux. I think it might be PEBKAC.
Comment 6 walt 2015-07-02 18:24:49 UTC
I just tried gmane again and this time the search function worked properly.

I think the gmane server (or my wireless connection) was having a brain fart and supplied an incomplete list of groups at the time I tried the search.

In any case, my bug report was indeed invalid and I'm sorry for the noise.

Thanks for supporting FOSS.