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That's not exclusive to Google Mail. I have never noticed any regression in search since switching to Fastmail.

• int_19h 9y ago
  It used to be that their search worked a lot better - but I've been using them since they were invite-only (I think it was 2004?), and haven't really looked much at other alternatives. One other thing that I kinda sorta like in GMail is labels (as opposed to folders). As I understand, it's not a popular feature, because there's no reliable way to map it to IMAP? So anything that assumes that IMAP (rather than a custom client or web app) will be used as a mail reader, will probably only provide folders.
  • mavhc 9y ago
    What's weird is IMAP has keywords, but they can't be used exactly like labels, no idea why IMAP hasn't been extended to include labels, seems rather easy.
    • brongondwana 9y ago
      The hardest bit when building a client is that keywords are per-folder, so unless you store all the email in a single folder server-side, you have to run the keyword search in every folder, every time, and you can't get updates to multiple folders at once, so you have to re-run that search frequently, which hammers servers pretty hard.
    • raphman 9y ago
      Huh, I've been extensively using custom IMAP flags/labels with Opera M2. It worked great.
      • int_19h 9y ago
        Opera is the only non-web client that I know of that has labels. But how does it actually represent them on IMAP level? And what happens when you view the same mailbox using another client?