Re: Searching emails on an IMAP server?

[James Leifer <James.Leifer@inria.fr>]

Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com> writes

(snipping liberally)

> Ah, so you already have all your mails available locally?

Yes.

> Maybe I could run a cron job that copies mail off my IMAP
> server and stores them locally (just like Zoe)?

Perhaps you could look at offlineimap which is supposed to do this
kind of copying well.

I assume you have no access to the machine that runs the imap server?
If you did have access, you could probably do what I do locally but on
*that* machine.  Then when you wanted to search, you would be able to
do:

  ssh imap-server search-and-populate-folder-script "my search string"

and view the results folder through any imap client back on your local
machine.

> Thanks for your reply James, I'll do some more googling to
> see if I can come up with anything else.

You're welcome.  Let us know what you discover!

-J