On 16 Jan 2007, at 13:41, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> 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.. ;)
I'm really not sure, but I suspect not - mail.app caches your imap
mailboxes. But just as a test, I coped that mail from the IMAP server
to a local mailbox. Stupid thing still won't find it.
Niall
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