Hi all, I have a problem concerning the "select" function of alpine.
I use the web hoster Strato for e-mail. Since recently, I see the following behavior: I am in the INBOX of the account and want to select all mails from a certain sender. I do ; T F <search pattern> where <search pattern> is in this case something in the "From" header, e.g. ; T F olaf should find mails with a line like this in the header: From: Olaf Skibbe <o...@kravcenko.com> But actually, the result of the sequence "; T F <search pattern>" is always empty, regardless of obvious matching mails. I can select the messages with <search pattern> in the "From:" header by searching for participants: ; T P <search pattern>. But obviously, this selects also mails with <search pattern> in other header fields. I can select the messages if I store them locally and do ; T F <search pattern> within the local folder. It also works as expected if I copy the mail to the INBOX of another account (at a different hoster). And last but not least, I find the messages in the INBOX using Thunderbird and search in the "From:" header. It seems as if searching the "From:" header on the mail server does not work, but searching participants evaluates the "From:" header regardless. All other text select methods (all that starts with "; T") seem to work fine. I suspect that this is not an alpine issue but something going wrong at the mail server at Strato. I would appreciate hints to how I could maybe get around this issue (I use the select functions very much, dozens of times every day for many years) or how I can evaluate the problem in more detail to address the people at Strato with it. Any hints or ideas? Kind regards, Olaf _______________________________________________ Alpine-info mailing list Alpine-info@u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
