Re: IMAP message searching
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:55:28AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> * On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 Eugeny N Dzhurinsky (eugenydzh@xxxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> > Can somebody please explain me, how is it possible to make search in the
> > body
> > of the message on IMAP server w/o downloading the messages?
>
> Plain and simple - that's not possible at all. How should mutt know
> what's in the body when you don't want to download the message?
I thought the search capabilities are included in IMAP protocol specification,
arent' them? If so, why just not to unilize these capabilities, and let the
IMAP server to do the search on server-side?
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Eugene N Dzhurinsky