279526 - not clear where saved searches are performed

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Max Waterman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050104 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050104 Firefox/1.0+

WRT 'saved search' folders on IMAP accounts, it is not clear where the actual
search is done.

Is the search done on the IMAP server, or on the client? Is it possible to
determine where the search is done?

Please could someone enhance the documentation :

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Saved_Search

to make it more clear, or comment here, so I can make the edit?

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Max Waterman]

NB, it also seems that it is not possible to search for flagged messages, which
would be very useful. I am not sure if it is somehow possible. If it is, please
advise and I will update the doc appropriately.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Searching  is done on the IMAP server. That's also why flagged messages can't be
searched (the flags are kept locally).

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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