On 2024-07-27 15:05, Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info wrote:
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?
It is suggestive of a problem I have with search and select (based on headers) on a gmx.es account. Search results using the server are wrong (using a different software, not alpine). I found that I had to tell this software to repeat the search on the downloaded data, instead of asking the server. This is, of course, slow.
I had problems with alpine, which I bypass using a different .pinerc profile:
"Gmx" {imap.gmx.com/tls/user=robin.lis...@gmx.es}INBOX,
"F Gmx" {imap.gmx.com/tls/user=robin.lis...@gmx.es/loser}INBOX,
This forces filtering to use the same trick and do the filtering in
local RAM. Alpine is substantially slower with this method, but it works.
I got this trick from Eduardo Chappa, thread:
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 11:48:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Carlos E. R. <robin.lis...@telefonica.net>
To: Alpine info <alpine-info@u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Alpine-info] Sudenly, a rule doesn't work.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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