On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 22:23 +0100, Thomas Novin wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 06:12 +0100, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 23.02.2011, 15:49 +0100 schrieb Thomas Novin: > > > Hello > > > > > > I constantly have a need for searching through my emails. For my Gmail > > > account I usually go to Gmail Webmail which has a very advanced way of > > > doing this (if you know the search filters) and it's extremely fast. > > > > > > For my other account which is an IMAP-connection to an Exchange-server I > > > can only search from within Evolution. Since the search function is > > > limited,
Does Exchange's IMAP support SEARCH? [Honestly, I have no idea]. Cyrus IMAP supports SEARCH and full-text indexing of mailbox content - so server side search is *FAST* and efficient. I've seen significant differences in SEARCH implementations over the years between various IMAP servers (and versions of IMAP servers, and configurations of IMAP servers). > > What do you mean by "limited"? > No so much limited by number of searches you can do, more that I find > that it often doesn't work or is extremely slow. I just now did a body > search for 'distributed' in "Current Accounts". After 5 minutes I shut > down Evolution because I didn't want to wait any longer. No real CPU > usage either so I doubt much was going on. It would be interesting to see the telemetry on such a request; is Evolution asking the server to search the mailbox or downloading the required data of all candidate messages in order to search locally? [if the later then no wonder it is slow - and your grep-test, while fast, will be inaccurate]. According to the go-evolution Wiki: <quote> Searching is implemented using a customised Camel.Search#Camel.FolderSearch object. Since most search operations work against the Camel.FolderSummary, those are unaltered, but the (body-contains ...) search is overridden, and sent to the server using the UID SEARCH command. </quote> > Then instead did the search with grep. In < 5 secs it was done with two > matches. But, again, this assumes that the mail is local. A fast, and incorrect/incomplete, response is worth much. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
