Yahoo Mail - Advance Search Bug ?
July 25th, 2005 at 10:25pm
Well, I discovered this problem a month back. Reported it to yahoo customer care almost immediately. (could only find them after searching for some 15 mins). No response from customer care to date. So, let me put it up here.
Ok. This one is a minor bug, but is a major inconvenience. Not sure if this is specific to me only or to all. I have tested on Firefox browser only. Would be great if anyone can confirm this.
The Bug :
The problem is in the Advance Search feature, when you want to search only in specific folder. The search result returns mails from all folders, even when you have asked it to fetch results *only* from a specific folder.
Here is a screen shot :
Advance Search Results - Click to zoom in. (opens up in a new window)
The above shows the results of a advance search I made with the following parameters :
“Search All Unread mails in the BlogComments folder”
Dissecting the above screen shot
Point 1 : Unread mails only (folder selected BlogComments)
Point 2 : BlogComments folder has 8 unread mails only
Point 3 : 236 results returned!!!
Point 4 : Shows results from all folders.
Clearly, someone has not done testing as per the test plans! May be they thought it was too trivial to test it!
or
Have I goofed up somewhere?
Tags: bug, mail, search, yahoo, yahoo mail
Entry Filed under: Net
15 Comments Add your own
1. lid | August 8th, 2005 at 6:57 pm
happens to me too. every time.
2. Arjun | August 8th, 2005 at 10:53 pm
Lid : thanks for confirming
3. Morac | August 10th, 2005 at 4:03 am
I tested this and also saw the problem. I emailed Yahoo as well. Maybe they will listen to me since I have a paid account. They might not bother fixing it though since they are rewriting the mail interface.
4. Arjun | August 11th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Morac : Hope so..
I guess the new interface is AJAX based…. any info on that ?
5. Morac | August 11th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
I believe the new interface is AJAX based (developed by Oddpost). I know it’s in beta testing and I’ve seen images of it, but I don’t have access to it yet. The only other info I’ve seen is the press releases:
http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/06/27/behold_the_new_yahoo_mail.html
6. Morac | August 14th, 2005 at 11:45 pm
Just a FYI, but I got a response from Yahoo. It was a pretty generic “we’re looking into the problem, sorry for any inconveniences” response with recommendations to upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer, Netscape or Firefox.
I’ve found in the past that it can take a long time to get something fixed. An error with me not being able to save to my Yahoo Briefcase took around 4 or 5 months to fix.
7. nikhil | December 9th, 2005 at 4:54 pm
Kindly do something to solve my
problem. my mail account is not
working, last I login my account on 02-
12-2005 near 9:15 am and changed the
password of my mail account. after
that my messenger is working properly
but not able to open mail account,
messenger continue shows that you have
new mail messages. but when I open the
account to read mail its shows error
message Temperory access problem. Kindly do something I’m in
facing this situation very hardly. I
have soo many important mails in that.
Its a request, plz do something fast
to rectify this problem. Plz favour me
soon.
Nikhil
8. Arjun | December 9th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
Nikil : Contact Yahoo folks. This probably is the wrong place to ask for help. Try contacting yahoo support.
9. swati | January 7th, 2006 at 11:20 pm (subscribed to comments)
i lost my password please help me .
send my password to loknathprakash_love@yahoo.com
10. Arjun | January 8th, 2006 at 12:17 am
@Swati………This is not the right place to make such requests. kindly contact yahoo customer care.
11. Hi | June 11th, 2006 at 5:55 pm (subscribed to comments)
can some one please send me the customer care number of yahoo in india. my yahoo is has been hacked by a pakistani and he is making obscene demands to give my password back.
please help.
Dr.Ali
12. urvish | July 3rd, 2006 at 11:58 am (subscribed to comments)
i am having problems accessing my id urvish_003@yahoo.com
i went to forgot password but cannot answer the challenge question correctly as it was years back. now a new password is generated and mailed to the alternate mail id but that was also very old so it does not exist. Please help me , i need to access my id in any way.
13. sudha | October 25th, 2006 at 1:09 pm (subscribed to comments)
Hi,
I am unable to logon to my yahoo account. Itseems some body has hacked and changed my password. Can somebody pass on yahoo customer care number in india preferrably or mail id.
Thanks Anyway!
14. Huvaji | September 11th, 2007 at 6:37 am (subscribed to comments)
i got a mail from usa and uk my mail won the 500.000gbp
is it true or false i got a lot of mails like that is it true?
please Reply
Regards
Huvaji
15. Arjun | September 11th, 2007 at 10:36 am
@Huvaji:
The mail that you got is MOSTLY a scam mail.
Its not true as far as I see it.
Don’t reply to such emails - you might get into trouble!
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