Re: where does it search
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- Subject: Re: where does it search
- From: Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:48:17 -0500
- Cc: Vance Shipley <vances@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thursday, September 25 at 12:38 PM, quoth Vance Shipley:
> 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.
From the muttrc man page:
=b STRING messages which contain STRING in the message body. If
IMAP is enabled, searches for STRING on the server,
rather than downloading each message and searching it
locally.
(I wrote that part of the documentation.)
~Kyle
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