Searching messages doesn't work in Geary email client

gannicus · January 22, 2021, 9:06pm

After many years of using KDE I’ve switched to Gnome for the last several weeks and have really come to enjoy and appreciate it. But I am having a problem with Geary, Gnome’s email client: I can’t search messages. When I enter something in the search field nothing happens. Moreover, after trying the search function, Geary stops checking my imap accounts and I have to logout for Geary to work properly again. Has anyone else run into this problem?

malcolmlewis · January 22, 2021, 9:38pm

Hi
Likely related to this fix… Search implementation update (!616) · Merge requests · GNOME / Geary · GitLab

Ref: searching stops working completely (#756) · Issues · GNOME / Geary · GitLab and Search seemingly not working (#994) · Issues · GNOME / Geary · GitLab

Update was only pushed three days ago, so might be a little time before it appears…

gannicus · January 22, 2021, 9:50pm

Thanks, Malcolm.

gannicus · January 23, 2021, 7:45pm

Searching messages now works in Geary. Maybe an update yesterday fixed the problem?

gannicus · January 24, 2021, 6:38am

Spoke too soon. Search still isn’t working.

malcolmlewis · January 24, 2021, 4:26pm

Hi
Heard back from the Gnome folks, the fix I indicated is in the alpha branch, I will try and look next week if can cherry pick the fixes, but not sure

gannicus · January 24, 2021, 9:25pm

Thanks, Malcolm. Guess I’ll just have to be patient.