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by mike-cardwell 3357 days ago
What sucks about IMAP search? I linked to the protocol in my previous comment. It's pretty damn comprehensive in what it offers...

You can get desktop and web based and command line clients which talk the ManageSieve protocol so provide you with an interface to manage your server based sieve mail filters [1]

I'll agree that it's not common. Not because there is anything wrong with it, but because companies like Google decided to roll their own for whatever reason.

[1] http://sieve.info/clients
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Mailtemi 3356 days ago
IMAP Search support only ASCII and you cannot search non-English content. There is an extension for utf-8, but Some of the major emails services as Outlook/Ofiice365 doesn't support it. Also, you can search only a particular folder instead entire mailbox.
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mike-cardwell 3356 days ago
Fair points. I guess I've never had to search for non-ASCII text. Hopefully the UTF-8 extension will gain support over time.

I can see use cases for needing to search across multiple folders. I guess I've not felt the need to do that myself before. However, no reason your IMAP client couldn't search folders one after the other, or open multiple connections and search multiple folders simultaneously.

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