Re: [Evolution] Search folder dies with this condition

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 14:01 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: 
> I'm using IMAP with my Gmail account.  If I create a search folder
> (within specific folders such as Inbox and Sent), then it all works
> fine. 
>
> If I want the condition to include messages sent AND received from, say,
> John Doe, then I create two conditions: one as "Sender contains" and one
> as "Recipients contains".  This works fine.
>
> However, if I use the single condition "Sender or recipients" for the
> same person (which, as I understand, is the above two conditions merged
> into one). then everything falls apart; the folders become blank and Evo
> goes mad in the status bar, "retrieving" this and that, but seemingly
> not getting anywhere.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Gmail is not really IMAP, so it may not support this kind of search via
the IMAP interface. I haven't tried it so I can't be sure. I usually do
searches on my Gmail accounts via the Web interface, which is very fast.

You might want to look at
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs

poc