That's because most email clients suck, at least in respect to their handling of IMAP. Mulberry and pine are two examples of clients that do it right.where can I find examples for the IMAP SEARCH command? which mail readers use the SEARCH command? it seams that the most readers perform search-request only local and not against the imap-server.
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