Sim Zacks wrote:
> I would like my email client to always search locally for email and not
> use the IMAP for online search. This is because we download all of our
> email anyway, and searching is much faster and not case sensitive. (I've
> checked in offline mode, but I need it to work the same way in online mode)
> 
> If I understand correctly, search is an IMAP capability that I can
> disable in the dbmail.conf file.
> 
> Currently, this is in my dbmail.conf file:
> 
> # Provide a CAPABILITY to override the default
> #
> # capability            = IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=LOGIN ACL NAMESPACE
> CHILDREN SORT QUOTA THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT UNSELECT IDLE
> 
> As you can see the capability is commented out. However, I don't see a
> search capability in the list.

That is because SEARCH is implied and required by both IMAP4 and
IMAP4rev1. No way to disable it without invalidating core imap RFC
compliance.

> 
> Is there a list of all the capabilities and which ones dbmail supports
> and what the default is?

The list is complete.

> I telnetted to port 143 of the server and it didn't tell me the
> capabilities. I read that the IDLE capability is not good for
> thunderbird client. 

Only for 2.3.x! It's working just fine for 2.2 afaik.


> If most of our clients are thunderbird, should we
> disable that? Does it cause any other BAD THINGS to happen?

Disabling IDLE does *not* cause any unexpected side effects. TB will
fall back to using active polling on the selected mailbox by issuing a
NOOP command. This will trigger status updates; number of messages,
number of recent messages, expunged messages, etc - just like they are
pushed actively during IDLE.


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