Re: [Evolution] Searching my emails causes them all to download again

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 22:46 +0000, huw wrote:
> I can search emails by subject or sender just fine, but if I try to
> search by message body, Evolution apparently starts downloading all my
> emails again!  The message list doesn't change but a task appears at the
> bottom of the screen "Retrieving message '123456' in INBOX" (the number
> keeps changing).  Sure enough, a quick glance at system monitor shows
> data being downloaded by the MB.
> This is an IMAP+ account.  What's going on here?  Thanks in advance for
> all advice.

To search the full message the client has to download the full message;
I'm not sure what the surprise is.

It you enable copy-message-for-offline-operation the client should just
keep a copy locally at all times - that makes it less painful, sometimes
faster, and eat more local disk space.

I'm not sure if IMAP+ supports server-side IMAP SEARCH, or perhaps if
your IMAP provider supports it either.