[Dovecot] extended search

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 9/6/10 7:22 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 19:13 +0200, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>>>> is it safe to use arg_new_human_date() from
>>>> src/lib-storage/mail-search-register-human.c instead of arg_new_date()
>>>> inside src/lib-storage/mail-search-register-imap.c?
>>> I guess.
>>>
>>>> The benefit is ability to use interval based search rules, e.g., SINCE
>>>> 2days. I run it for couple of days and looks fine, used for virtual folders.
>>> It's still possible, although less human friendly: "younger
>>> 172800" (i.e. younger than 172800 seconds).
>> I tried that, but for some reason it didn't returned proper results
>> (might have been related to importing the emails to dovecot). Besides
>> more human friendly, "since" worked fine. Also, younger is for internal
>> date only, does not work for email's Date header (sentbefore/sentsince...)
> Well, the other thing I had been thinking previously was that maybe the
> dovecot-virtual files should use human parser for everything. I don't
> anyway really like the idea of exposing the "2days" extension to regular
> IMAP clients. Maybe some day there really is such an extension that is
> also incompatible with what Dovecot does..
>
> Maybe there could be some command at the beginning of dovecot-virtual
> file specifying if human parser or imap parser should be used. Or maybe
> just a plugin setting. Hmm.
using human parser for virtual folders is indeed a good idea.

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