On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 3:14 AM Daniel Miller <dmiller@amfes.com> wrote:
What client(s) use this and how? I've used virtual folders - by explicitly "subscribing" to them and then performing a search within them. By hiding the virtual folders how do you use them?

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Daniel

------ Original Message ------
From: "Joe Wong" <joewong99@gmail.com>
To: "Aki Tuomi" <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com>
Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org; "Peter" <pch@myzel.net>; "Sami Ketola" <sami.ketola@dovecot.fi>
Sent: 5/11/2020 4:51:14 AM
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: Support for MULTISEARCH

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 7:18 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com>
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> On 11/05/2020 14:09 Joe Wong <joewong99@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:16 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com>
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> > > On 11/05/2020 12:12 Joe Wong <joewong99@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 3:54 PM Sami Ketola <sami.ketola@dovecot.fi>
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> > > > > 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!
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> > > > Virtual folder scales just fine. What makes you think it does not?
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> > > > We have customers that have users with thousand folders and
millions of emails and still virtual folder scales.
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> > > > Sami
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> > > is this possible to *hide* the virtual folder from listing but make
it SELECTable / EXAMINEable from IMAP?
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> > namespace {
> > location = virtual:...
> > hidden = yes
> > }
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> > Aki
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> * NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL
> a OK Namespace completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs).
> a list "" "*"* LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "/" FromL3
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "/" Apple
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "/" JunkMail
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Marked \Trash) "/" Trash
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked \Drafts) "/" Drafts
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Marked) "/" SENT
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" virtual* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" INBOX
> a OK List completed (0.003 + 0.000 + 0.003 secs).
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> It's now hidden in the namepsace but I can still see it in the folder
list, is this expected?
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Sorry, forgot to say
 
hidden=yes
list=no
 
Aki
 
 
thanks it is working now.

It is not a standard email client but a web client I am trying to make use of this *hidden* virtual folder to perform a cross folder search :)