Folder search semantics

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning writes: > And personally, I think I'd prefer that folder: be anchored by default, > so that folder:work means "the top-level folder named work", but it's > not a big deal to me as long as there's a fairly easy way to specify > exactly what I want. Oh, and in part, the reason why I

Folder search semantics

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Browning
Austin Clements writes: > As a consequence, all folders are subfolders of the inbox. With > recursive search, a search for your inbox folder returns *all* of your > messages. I wasn't trying to say that we shouldn't support recursive > search (I'm all for flexibility), but it's a confusing

Re: Folder search semantics

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org writes: And personally, I think I'd prefer that folder: be anchored by default, so that folder:work means the top-level folder named work, but it's not a big deal to me as long as there's a fairly easy way to specify exactly what I want. Oh, and in part,

Folder search semantics (was Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] Custom query parser, date search, folder search, and more)

2011-02-03 Thread Austin Clements
Quoth Carl Worth on Feb 02 at 2:48 pm: > Restricting my reply to one tiny bit of your mail: > > You wrote: > > non-recursive is the only thing that makes sense for Maildir++ folders > > Either I'm not understanding Maildir++ folders, or I don't agree with > you. > > I might have an email

Folder search semantics (was Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] Custom query parser, date search, folder search, and more)

2011-02-03 Thread Austin Clements
Quoth Carl Worth on Feb 02 at 2:48 pm: Restricting my reply to one tiny bit of your mail: You wrote: non-recursive is the only thing that makes sense for Maildir++ folders Either I'm not understanding Maildir++ folders, or I don't agree with you. I might have an email archive that