24 Jun
2008
24 Jun
'08
5:29 p.m.
Is my assumption correct, that there is no way to do a search over a big IMAP folder hierarchy in a reasonable amount of time, because each folder has to be 'selected', and only one folder can be selected at once?
This isn't 100% what you're looking for, but.. consider looking at "mairix". It does do full text search of mbox and maildir; it is a cli. Give it a search, and it populates a mail folder (using hardlinks if possible) with the results.
I use it when I want to search my archives; the speed makes up for it not being native to the imap client.