Enda Cronnolly writes:
On Saturday 14 May 2011 20:05:27 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Earl Killian writes: > > Sam, > > > > Is there anything less drastic? This means downloading 9 GB of old > > email to 4 different clients. > > That's not how IMAP works. There's no reason for the IMAP client to > download mail from the server unless you want to see it. If an IMAP client > wants to download every message in every mailbox from the server, it's not > really an IMAP client. It's a POP3 client, that's trying to babble IMAP.There is a good case for caching message bodies, and that is message bodysearching at the MUA. Does the IMAP "protocol" and courier's implementation ofit in particular extend message searching to the IMAP MUA?
IMAP does define a search command, that searches contents of messages.
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