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IMAP does provide a search function but it's substantially slower than downloading and indexing your emails locally..
by fjabre 17y ago
IMAP does provide a search function but it's substantially slower than downloading and indexing your emails locally..
- jgranby 17y agoI quite like the iPhone's compromise: it stores and indexes the most recent 50 or so messages, and when searching provides a "Continue search on server" button. Thunderbird (or others) could have a larger store of recent messages, but this would avoid downloading thousands of mailing list emails.