On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 3:54 PM Sami Ketola <sami.ketola@dovecot.fi> wrote:


> On 10. May 2020, at 1.51, Peter <pch@myzel.net> wrote:
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> Am 10.05.20 um 00:22 schrieb Daniel Miller:
>> Thank you - I'm aware of the virtual folder option and do use it. My interest is for a Windows client, EM Client, which I otherwise really enjoy. Unfortunately, they've implemented server-side searching only via MULTISEARCH - for reasons passing my understanding. So I was hoping to hear Dovecot either already had support or there were plans to implement it.
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> Virtual folder does not scale. Thank you for naming a client that does multisearch!

Virtual folder scales just fine. What makes you think it does not?

We have customers that have users with thousand folders and millions of emails and still virtual folder scales.

Sami


is this possible to *hide* the virtual folder from listing but make it SELECTable / EXAMINEable from IMAP?