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How does imap do stuff like search and tagging? I thought you had to basically do that stuff all locally.
by diogenes4 3y ago
How does imap do stuff like search and tagging? I thought you had to basically do that stuff all locally.
- prirai 3y agoThat's how it works. By default it does cache all the mail headers and additionally all the message content if you allow it to. If the message are limited to say, the last 90 days, it will ask to load more from server. First way is content but store heavy.
- diogenes4 3y agoWhat options are there for mail servers that offer tagging and search? The prospect of downloading my entire mail index just to offer ostensibly basic functionality seems pretty miserable.
- l72 3y agoIMAP supports server side searching. IMAP also supports custom flags (similar to GMail's labels) which can also be searched on. However, unfortunately, most email clients don't seem to support IMAP custom flags (Evolution and Thunderbird do). I use Evolution with custom flags and virtual folders + imapfilter to automatically add custom flags. It works great.