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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:47:31 -0400
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From: Fazlul Shahriar <fshahriar@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] searching in email using imap
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If you're using the p9p mailfs, you can do this:

    echo keyword | 9p rdwr mail/mbox/search

and it'll print the ids of the matched messages. I don't think an
interface for this exists in acme Mail.

fhs

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when using gmail via web, one
> i) immediately sees what folders/labels they have,
> ii) can search the mail (i.e. also its contents).
>
> I'd like to know how one can/could obtain this information when using imap.
> I believe (I read it somewhere) that imap has some means to ask the
> server to search the mail...
> (It'd be nice to have such possibility somehow integrated into acme/Mail.)
>
> Can anybody comment on this?
>
> Thanks!
> Ruda
>
>