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

Thanks Cyrus!  Sounds like it was finalized after the latest version of Mulberry.  Maybe for the next big release? 

On May 12, 2015 2:20:57 PM EDT, Cyrus Daboo <[email protected]> wrote:
>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.