Re: What to do about SEARCH?

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:51:37PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> fields.  I was thinking of perhaps giving it some more structure, and perhaps
> a globbing interface.  i.e.
> 
>   SEARCH <folder-path> <header-pattern> <match-pattern>
> 
> So you could do this:
> 
>   SEARCH dir/qmail to,cc,resent-* *@30below.com
> 
> to search the To:, cc:, and Resent-<anything>: header fields for addresses
> with that matching domain.  The search would be defined as case-insensitive as
> most information in message headers is case insensitive.  You could limit your
> search to a particular header field, or all fields with "*" as header-pattern,
> or a list of fields as above.

I would suggest limiting it to the current folder -- let the client do
any heavy work. In fact, clients wishing to do lots of heavy work would
be well advised not to do it remotely -- don't tie up the server, let
your local fingers do the walking.

-dsr-

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