Search subfolders

[Matt]

Looking at the RFC 2060 it seems it does not cater for searching
subfolders.

Any extensions or servers that support this? (I am using Cyrus). I
would not like it left up to the client to implement.

It seems like rather a gross oversight. I mean its very common that i
want to search my entire message store for a certain email that I've
misplaced.

cheers matt

[Jorey Bump]

A command that invoked a server side equivalent to egrep would certainly
rock! But how would it return the results?

[Sam]

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goo...@webafrica.co.za (Matt) writes:

> Looking at the RFC 2060 it seems it does not cater for searching
> subfolders.
>
> Any extensions or servers that support this? (I am using Cyrus). I
> would not like it left up to the client to implement.

As far as I know there are no documented extensions like that. The UW-IMAP
server advertizes an extension called "SCAN", which appears to do that;
however it appears to be a private server extension, a brief net search
shows that its publication was withdrawn, so as of now it is only a private
server extension only, and as far as I know only pine knows how to use it.
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[Kenneth A Kauffman]

"Matt" <goo...@webafrica.co.za> wrote in message
news:7b337cc2.03040...@posting.google.com...

I know you specified Cyrus. In UW it took compiling in the directory name
to be searched into the IMAP binary.

ken k