Bug#1113768: evolution: Incorrect calls to change search options

Jörg Behrmann behrmann at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Sep 2 10:53:19 BST 2025


Package: evolution
Version: 3.56.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian at karl-voit.at

(I'm send this bug report for a different user, who had issues with reportbug,
the user is CCed)

Dear Maintainer,

    * What led up to the situation?

If you're referring to a message ID from within the Evolution or from the
command line, you can't search for it.

In other words:

UI search for mid:"foobar12345 at example.com" is failing.

Furthermore, if you're using Evolution from 3rd party products and you're trying
to open a particular email via 'evolution "mid:foobar12345 at example.com"' this
fails as well.

This bug was fixed upstream already: [1]

Since I consider searching for a Message ID as a very fundamental part of a mail
client, I would like to suggest to include the small upstream fix from [1] to
Debian 13 Trixie as well.

The commit that fixes the issue is [2]

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/3079
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/commit/8b475f825505fabc258fd2e16b152c17bf05c837

Thank you!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.16.2-2
ii  dbus-broker [dbus-system-bus]   37-2
pn  evolution-common                <none>
ii  evolution-data-server           3.56.1-2
ii  libc6                           2.41-12
ii  libcamel-1.2-64t64              3.56.1-2
pn  libclutter-1.0-0                <none>
pn  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0            <none>
pn  libcogl20                       <none>
ii  libecal-2.0-3                   3.56.1-2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-27t64        3.56.1-2
pn  libevolution                    <none>
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                 2.84.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0t64                   3.24.49-3
ii  libical3t64                     3.0.20-1+b1
ii  libnotify4                      0.8.6-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0             2.48.5-1~deb13u1
ii  libxml2                         2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u1
ii  psmisc                          23.7-2

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
pn  evolution-ews                                                <none>
pn  evolution-plugin-bogofilter | evolution-plugin-spamassassin  <none>
pn  evolution-plugin-pstimport                                   <none>
pn  evolution-plugins                                            <none>
ii  yelp                                                         42.2-4

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-plugins-experimental  <none>
ii  gnupg                           2.4.7-21
ii  network-manager                 1.52.1-1



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