On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 07:04:46PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > On Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:47PM, Morris, Patrick wrote: > > > I have entries in my .muttrc for caching both headers and message > > > bodies. > > > > > > set header_cache="~/.mutt/headers" > > > set message_cachedir ="~/.mutt/bodies" > > > > > > Both directories are populated. The header caching appears to work > > > well > > > when doing searches for 'Subject' or 'From' but searching for text > > > within message bodies (using ~b) causes messages to be downloaded. > > > > > > Is this normal behavior? I will say that the directories within > > > ~/.mutt/bodies for each of my mail directories do not appear to have > > > "all" the message id's for messages on the server. > > > > > > Sounds pretty normal to me. There's no way to search IMAP messages locally > > if you haven't downloaded them yet. Headers will be downloaded > > automatically, but unlike with POP, the rest of the message will stay on the > > server undownloaded until you need to retrieve a copy, and you'd need to do > > that to search them. > > OK. Thanks for the clarification. > I usually use limit and then =b to perform the search on the server side. Much quicker if you don't have message bodies all downloaded.
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