Support for MULTISEARCH

Peter pch at myzel.net
Sun May 10 01:51:55 EEST 2020


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.

Virtual folder does not scale. Thank you for naming a client that does 
multisearch!

Peter

>> On 6.5.2020 3.57, Daniel Miller wrote:
>>> Does Dovecot presently support the MULTISEARCH command, or are there 
>>> plans to do so?
>> If you mean RFC7377, that is not supported.  ref. 
>> https://www.imapwiki.org/Specs
>> I would suggest evaluating if searching a single virtual folder could 
>> work for your use case. ref. 
>> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/virtual_plugin/
>> br,
>> Teemu


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