Re: [Evolution] Dealing with huge imap accounts / best practise?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> Oh, I am sorry. I just put the string "unique-search-subject1" into
> the search bar, that's all. The mail to be found (and saved into one
> of the subfolders previously by another mail client) had that exact
> string as subject. The current problem is: That mail is found only
> either when local caching is enabled (huge cache though) or the
> subfolder with that mail in it is previously once clicked, thus 
> somehow cached I guess.

So you use dovecot.  The dovecot search plugin info says this:

   By default the FTS indexes are updated only while searching, so
   neither the LDA nor an IMAP APPEND command updates the indexes
   immediately.

(https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS)

So it certainly seems that just moving things around doesn't update the
dovecot index (but yes, doing the search should).  But there are lots
of options for the dovecot searching and indexing that you might like
to look at - it might even be that the FTS plugin isn't turned on.

As Milan said, use the Evolution debugging to see what the imap chatter
is - that will give you more insight into what's going on.

P.