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Posted Mar 18, 2010 6:54 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)
Parent article: Archiveopteryx

quote: The IMAP protocol is not particularly friendly toward the implementation of fast, server-side searching,

that depends on exactly what you are looking for in terms of searching.

IMAP can do exact match searches in one folder very well (although many implementations do not do very well)

there is even a spec (not widely implemented in either server or client) for enhanced searches.

what it does not do is searches across different folders

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Archiveopteryx

Posted Mar 19, 2010 23:29 UTC (Fri) by cras (guest, #7000) [Link]

Standard IMAP protocol requires that searches support substring matching. This is difficult to
support in a fast way, and about none of the commonly used full text search indexers support
searching substrings. Of course, many IMAP servers (like GMail among others) simply ignore this
requirement. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-morg-fuzzy-se... is anyway supposed
to help with this.


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