IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension | |||||||||||||||||
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The IMAP4 specification allows the searching only of the selected mailbox. A user often wants to search multiple mailboxes, and a client that wishes to support this must issue a series of SELECT and SEARCH commands, waiting for each to complete before moving on to the next. This extension allows a client to search multiple mailboxes with one command, limiting the round-trips and waiting for various searches to complete, and not requiring disruption of the currently selected mailbox. This also uses MAILBOX and TAG fields in ESEARCH responses, allowing a client to pipeline the searches if it chooses. |
Last Modified: 2009-04-03
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