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by viraptor 3437 days ago
> How slow would this be with thousands of emails on a mobile device ?

This in itself is not a problem. Btrees are O(log n) for search, so thousands of emails can be looked up in 3-4 requests with the most naive way to implement remote tree walk.

The fact you're revealing the structure and index contents to the server as you search would be a bigger issue.