Yahoo Mail - Advance Search Bug ?

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?

15 comments | July 25th, 2005 at 10:25pm