Lionel Élie Mamane <lio...@mamane.lu> writes: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Andre Rodier wrote: > >> Is there any desktop email client on Debian, that supports server >> side IMAP search, please ? > > mutt makes a server-side search when the search operator starts with > "=" instead of "~"; this also means that it is a string search rather > than a regexp search, if I understand correctly this is due to the > IMAP protocol search not supporting regexps. > > So e.g. "=s f.o" makes a server-side search for the exact string "f.o" > in the subject, but "~s f.o" makes a client-side search in subject for > f, then any character, then o.
With Gnus on Emacs you can run general IMAP queries: Example: C-u G G ON "17-Aug-2011" RET imap RET Other keywords: SUBJECT TO FROM BEFORE SINCE See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1730#section-6.4.4 Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under constuction.
