Re: [9fans] searching in email using imap

[Mathieu Lonjaret <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com>]

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
>>
>>
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