Re: Mulberry-discuss Digest, Vol 87, Issue 3

Hi David,

--On May 12, 2015 at 1:58:21 PM -0400 David Gessel 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Another curious request:  I've seen some indication that server side
> search is folder specific and if I understood it, there's no
> straightforward "search the user's whole mailstore" function.  I think TB
> has some folder traversal process that gets you there.  Server side
> indexed search, for example with Clucene indexing dovecot, is nearly
> instantaneous and brings Google equivalent performance to small-cache
> mobile clients, but my results with K9 so far seem to show
> folder-by-folder results, which isn't quite what I'm usually looking for.
>
> Is this an IMAP feature/limitation or a client feature/limit?

There is a relatively new (2011) IMAP extension to support searching across 
multiple mailboxes. I am not sure how widely supported that is on either 
servers or clients, though I do see it listed in the capabilities of my 
home (dovecot) server. Look for "ESEARCH" in capabilities.

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Cyrus Daboo