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
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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
Comment by Hi — June 11, 2006 #
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.
Comment by urvish — July 3, 2006 #
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!
Comment by sudha — October 25, 2006 #
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
Comment by Huvaji — September 11, 2007 #
@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!
Comment by Arjun — September 11, 2007 #