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Re: where does it search



Bill,

Something which is undocumented, as far as I can see, is that when
working with an IMAP mail store you can search conduct the search
on the server.  If you do a /~b it will have to download all the
messages to do the search.  If you replace '~' with '=' in your
search pattern (e.g. /=b foo) it will compile a search function
and send it to the server.  This should really make it into the
manual as it's very important for IMAP users.

        -Vance

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:03:12AM +0800, bill lam wrote:
}  In index page, / or T can search a pattern or regex, and there are
}  modifiers like ~h ~b to force searching inside header or body etc.
}  But what is the context for searching without any such modifiers, does
}  it search the header or body or just what is visible of the index
}  screen?