[9fans] searching in email using imap

[9fans] searching in email using imap

[Rudolf Sykora]

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

Re: [9fans] searching in email using imap

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)]

> Can anybody comment on this?

RFC3501 §6.4.4: the SEARCH command.

upas doesn't use it.

Re: [9fans] searching in email using imap

[erik quanstrom]

On Sat Aug 27 15:02:51 EDT 2011, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > Can anybody comment on this?
>
> RFC3501 §6.4.4: the SEARCH command.
>
> upas doesn't use it.

more to the point, upas doesn't have a search
interface.  the model is one uses the normal
commands for searching like grep.

- erik

Re: [9fans] searching in email using imap

[Fazlul Shahriar]

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
>
>

Re: [9fans] searching in email using imap

[Mathieu Lonjaret]

Neat trick, thanks.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Fazlul Shahriar <fshahriar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
>