On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > In other words, it should do:
> >  00015 UID SEARCH 1:60 BODY target
> >  00016 UID SEARCH 61:120 BODY target
> > etc. until it reaches the number of messages in the mailbox:
> >  00020 UID SEARCH 300:343 BODY target
>
> This isn't a complete example -- the client will want to have the UID
> of the matched messages as well

It will.  Note that the command is UID SEARCH, not UID.

In other words, it takes sequences as an argument, but returns UIDs.

> and will have to send commands to the
> server to retrieve the UID of the matches sequence numbers

No, because it got back UIDs, not sequence numbers.

> So there isn't
> a generic recommendation possible to give here, which I believe is
> symptomatic of something missing in the protocol.

Do you now agree that you were mistaken?  I realize that it can be
complicated, but the functionality *is* there.

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