On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 17:03 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 16:43 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I think it depends on the search itself, but the IMAPx tries to > > search > > > as much on the server as it can. Searching in summary headers is > > left > > > for a local search, of course. > > Interesting. I don't understand why it's so much slower than the > > direct > > webmail search. Perhaps it's iterating over the subscribed folders, > > whereas the direct case just looks everywhere by default. > I did a trace and naturally enough that is what's happening. It's not > obvious how it could be improved within the IMAP model since IIUC the > search is implicitly tied to the current folder. Probably not worth > spending time on as I'm guessing a search over the whole account isn't a > common case.
Agree. I would think a search over an entire account would have to be *very* specific not to return a large number of `false positives` for the desired message(s). -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
