I'm working on a small app to help sort/organize my mail via Gmail's
IMAP server, and I'm using imapclient (BTW it's a _huge_ improvement
over imaplib).
The odd thing I'm seeing is that when searching a large "folder" (All
Mail), I get wildly different times depending on what header I search.
allmail = IMAPClient(HOST, use_uid=True, ssl=True, port=993)
allmail.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
allmail.select_folder('[Gmail]/All Mail')
Searching on "Message-Id:" is fast (sub-second):
irt = allmail.search('HEADER Message-ID %s' % msgid)
Searching on "In-Reply-To:" takes 10-15 seconds:
rt = allmail.search('HEADER In-Reply-To %s' % msgid)
[IIRC, I've got about 22000 messages in the 'All Mail' "folder".]
I'm assuming this is just due to the way that Google implmented their
IMAP server code, but I thought I'd ask if anybody else had noticed
this. Perhaps I'm doing something stupid, but I can't imagine what it
would be....
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