MBOX-Line: From mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU  Tue May 22 08:13:23 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:39 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] "SCAN" capability ?
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On Tue, 22 May 2007, DINH Vi?t Ho? wrote:
> Note that in capabilities, there is something called 'SCAN'.
> I never heard about this. Does anyone know what it is ?

SCAN is a private extension in UW imapd.  It's a LIST that takes a third 
argument, and it filters out names that do not have that string in the 
file contents.  It's like fgrep through mailbox files, but is very crude 
(too crude).

-- Mark --

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