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Thunderbird can be configured to download all emails in full and index them (I don't think it does that by default). But mail clients usually use the IMAP sear
by tredre3 3y ago
Thunderbird can be configured to download all emails in full and index them (I don't think it does that by default).
But mail clients usually use the IMAP search command and the server does the searching:
Client: A282 SEARCH FLAGGED SINCE 1-Feb-1994 NOT FROM "Smith"
Server: * SEARCH 2 84 882
Server: A282 OK SEARCH completed
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1730#section-6.4.4 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1730#section-6.4.4