[sylpheed:36132] Re: IMAP full text search functionality

[Frantz de Germain]

Le Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:20:19 -0700
G H <uothrawn at yahoo.com> écrivait:

> Please correct me if I am wrong, but it appears that Sylpheed doesn't
> support IMAP search functionality. I have a mailbox with about 40GB of
> mail, and attempting to do a recursive search causes sylpheed to download
> every message individually. It should be running an IMAP query like:
> 
> . SEARCH TEXT "the" BEFORE 1-Nov-2009
> 
> This causes the IMAP server to perform the search, which would have its own
> index (Dovecot supports this, for example). Then the client would not need
> to download every messages' full body.
> 
> Should I file a bug report on this matter?

Hello,

if this were be possible, it would be great :-)

Regards.


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Frantz de Germain
Département Informatique UFR Sciences / DDN
Université d'Angers