Re: Comp. Window

[Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, David Pickens wrote:

> I'm not quite sure where we stand after the filtering 'debate' (other than
> that we're all more clear about the acronyms involved!), but what I'd like
> to do unless someone has any objection (or, unless someone's begun) is to
> add search capability to balsa -- the easiest implementation would
> present someone with a 'find' box, and allow them to jump to the first
> message in the current mailbox that fits the regex (with a find next
> option).  Clear, though, this isn't the best of all possible solutions.
> Ideally, I think, we'd want the user to view an index of the found
> messages from different mailboxes, and to open them directly from that
> index.  This is much more detailed and would probably not surface for
> general use any time soon.  So, my question is similar to Peter's:  do you
> want a quick-and-dirty first-generation search function that would allow
> you to search through the messages in the current mailbox using either
> perl or 'standard' regexes, with the option of more mature search at some
> point, or would you rather wait for the final version?

IMAP supports server-side search.  It might be worth you investigating
that with a view to designing some implementation which can take advantage
of that when we have a more powerful IMAP implementation.

If you don't have the correct RFCs handy, I'll find you a reference.

Jules
 
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