Re: Re: Sqwebmail roadmap

On Apr 21, 2004, at 11:37, Jonathan Shaw wrote:

> Brian Candler writes:
>> I have a few suggestions for where I think Sqwebmail ought to go - 
>> and I
>> wonder if other people concur or have other suggestions. It might be 
>> nice to
>> have a wishlist which people can work on. Regards, Brian.
>
> I would like to see if there is any way to implement any method of 
> searching both in a single folder, and in the entire box.  If this was 
> available I could do away with the need for outlook for searching.
> -Jonathan
>

Indeed, this is on the list of ideas that I had already collected from 
people. I don't know what would be involved in making it happen. (And 
unfortunately, I don't have the time to take a stab at it myself right 
now.) But presumably, the code from Courier-IMAP that does searching 
could be reused somehow or another.

Although, I don't recall if Courier-IMAP can search across mailboxes or 
not. The IMAP "SEARCH" command may be restricted to searching the 
selected mailbox. I'm not sure. (Sam?? Does it do multi-box searching? 
-- Or do the clients handle that for themselves by firing off searches 
from within each folder?) But anyway, I'm sure it could be done by 
doing repeated/parallel searches if that was needed.

Hmmm... But keep in mind that if this gets implemented, the 
administrator should probably be able to disable both searching in 
general, *and* recursive searching of folders... at their discretion, 
for performance reasons... at compile time, or better yet at run time.

-jab