On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 07:53:11PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:22:00AM +0300, > Alexander Gattin wrote: > > I use / ~b <regexp> for searching in IMAP > > folder. Newer IMAP versions support > > server-side searching but AFAIK mutt doesn't > > support this (XXX: one more wishlist item). > > / =b <expression> > > The only problem is the search expression cannot > be a regular expression because that's not > supported by servers (or standard, I don't > know).
As far as I remember you are right -- only
plaintext search is supported (maybe case
insensitive), but not regexps. But in some cases
(when regexp doesn't contain special characters
(^.*+[]{}()$ etc)) mutt could fallback to
server-side IMAP search.
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With best regards,
xrgtn
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