MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no  Wed Mar 14 12:08:05 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] SEARCH restricted to one mailbox? Extensions?
In-Reply-To: <45F84311.3080906@aol.com>
References: <"07Mar12. 152936pst. 57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
	<1173743673.9167.65.camel@hurina> <45F6A2E4.3060502@aol.com>
	<45F83CCD.2050808@isode.com> <45F84311.3080906@aol.com>
Message-ID: <jhC3CqDZvoKAsUpydmv19Q.md5@libertango.oryx.com>

John Snow writes:
> Sort of.   In vfolder, the search criteria is stored to create a view 
> that is a subset of an existing mailbox. In that case, it can easily 
> be treated the same as any other mailbox.  My hope is to expand that 
> beyond a single mailbox.

Vfolder will do that by using Alexey's multimailbox search, at least 
that's the vague intention.

> I think creating a server stored view is unnecessary.  The extension 
> aware client can create the combined view on the fly.

FWIW, vfolder is the way it so so that unextended clients see the data, 
too. The folder can be set up by an extended client or outside IMAP and 
accessed by anything.

Arnt

