[ILUG] Mail clients

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Just the other day I noticed that its searching is also pants. I 
> have an email which contains the exact string 10JAN07. mail.app can 
> find that, but can't find JAN07.

Isn't the SEARCH done by the IMAP server?

   	http://rfc.net/rfc3501.html#s6.4.4.

> Frankly, I'd like the searching to be at least as good as grep.

Then you'll need to get consensus on some kind TEXTREGEX search key 
for IMAP, between the vendors of your IMAP server and client at a 
minimum.. ;)

regards,
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