Rob Owens: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:48:52PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Rob Owens: >>> >>> I just verified that I can search the contents of emails in Mutt and >>> only enter my GPG passphrase once. There were multiple encrypted emails >>> in my inbox when I tested this. >> >> The problem is that mutt's search doesn't use an index. Searching >> message bodies is painfully slow this way. I usually do server-side >> search via IMAP, but that doesn't work for encrypted mails at all. >> > I have all my messages on my ISP's IMAP server. I don't have anything > but headers cached locally. I was able to search with Mutt. But it was > kind of slow. I assume that behind the scenes it downloads each message > to a temporary file (or RAM) and searches it that way. Exactly. I guess mutt is smart enough to perform local header checks first and only downloads the remaining messages to search their bodies, but that's still a problem if those messages have attachments. J. -- People talking a foreign language are romantic and mysterious. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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