MBOX-Line: From mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU  Thu Apr  6 08:02:59 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Non-strict searching
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Dave Cridland wrote:
> I'm particularly curious as to how Mark's SCAN extension might look if taken 
> in this direction. (Mark, do you have a specification for SCAN as-is?)

SCAN is nothing more than a LIST with a third argument that filters out 
any files that do not contain the string.  It doesn't even try to do any 
mailbox handling.  It was, and remains, a kludge to answer the people who 
wanted an equivalent to fgrep for a string in a mailbox file.

-- Mark --

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