Re: Email clients and IMAP search support
Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Andre Rodier wrote:
>
>> Is there any desktop email client on Debian, that supports server
>> side IMAP search, please ?
>
> mutt makes a server-side search when the search operator starts with
> "=" instead of "~"; this also means that it is a string search rather
> than a regexp search, if I understand correctly this is due to the
> IMAP protocol search not supporting regexps.
>
> So e.g. "=s f.o" makes a server-side search for the exact string "f.o"
> in the subject, but "~s f.o" makes a client-side search in subject for
> f, then any character, then o.
With Gnus on Emacs you can run general IMAP queries:
Example: C-u G G ON "17-Aug-2011" RET imap RET
Other keywords: SUBJECT TO FROM BEFORE SINCE
See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1730#section-6.4.4
Cheers,
Loris
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