Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Fast full-text search of e-mails?

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 21:41 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 06:39 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > So either
> > (a) Evolution did not ask the server to do the search
> >   - or -
> > (b) their implementation of IMAP search is lame.
>
> Without tracing Evo, I can't say which of these is the answer, 
> though I suspect it's probably (a). Google obviously does do search 
> (duh) and there's no reason why it should do it badly just because 
> it's an IMAP connection, even if their IMAP implementation is not 
> the best. I don't know how Evo decides whether the server can do 
> searching.

        Hi,
I tried to trace it (better know than guess). I invoked a simple "body 
contains evolution" search on a GMail Inbox folder from evolution and 
that was done server-side, as can be seen here:
   H02430 UID SEARCH BODY "evolution"
   * SEARCH 112 116 376 468 748
   H02430 OK SEARCH completed (Success)

I think it depends on the search itself, but the IMAPx tries to search 
as much on the server as it can. Searching in summary headers is left 
for a local search, of course.


        Bye,
        Milan